Jaroslav Rössler Smilov 1902 – 1990 Prague Portfolio I.

Portfolio I. Circa 1923–1927 as well as circa 1964

Portfolio with 10 posthumous gelatin silver prints of original glass negatives, executed by Sylva Vítová-Rösslerová, 1991. Each approx. 20 × 21 cm (25 × 24 cm) and 26,4 × 20,9 cm (28,9 × 23,5 cm). (7 ⅞ × 8 ¼ in. (9 ⅞ × 9 ½ in.) and 10 ⅜ × 8 ¼ in. (11 ⅜ × 9 ¼ in.)) Each signed in pencil on the reverse by Sylva Vítová-Rösslerová as well as with edition and copyright stamp, therein numbered in black ink and editioned. Each mounted on cardboard under mat at the upper margin, thereupon in pencil copy number and editioned. With accompanying printed title page in Czech and English with list of titles, artist's biography and edition note, thereupon in black ink edition number as well as signed by Sylva Vítová-Rösslerová in pencil. Together in black original linen-covered box (52,4 x 41,4 x 5 cm) with grey title imprint in screen printing technique: „JAROSLAV RÖSSLER“ as well as on the cassette cover and „I RÖSSLER PHP“ on the back of the cassete. One of 15 + 10 a.p. editioned copies, ed. Suzanne E. Pastor and the Prague House of Photography, Prague 1991. Original linen-covered box with handling marks. [2028]
Provenance: Private collection, Spain
Literature and Illustration: Vladimir Birgus: Jaroslav Rössler. Prague 2001,plT. 2, 7, 13 (there variation in the positive), 22, 33 / Vladimir Birgus and Jan Mlčoch (ed.): Jaroslav Rössler. Czech Avant-Garde Photographer. Cambridge, Massachusetts and London 2004, p. 30 and pl. 6, 21 (there variation in the positive), 23 / exh. cat.: Czech Vision. Avant-Garde Photography in Czechoslovakia. Berlin, Gallery Kicken; New York, Howard Greenberg Gallery, 2007, p. 49 / exh. cat.: Drtikol. Funke. Rössler. Wiškovský. Paris, Centre tchèque; Opava, Dům umění; Landskrona, Landskrona Museum, 2014/15, see p. 48, p. 51-52, p. 54