Budapest 1913 – 1954 Thai-Binh/Vietnam
The Falling Soldier. 1936
EUR 2,000
- 2,400
Auction 757
Sunday, October 19th 2025, 6:00 PM
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Condition Report: With signs of wear. Satin finish heavy paper. Blacklight tested, no fluorescence. Upper left corner in the sheet margin with loss, approx. 1 cm. Starting from the bottom edge, 3 vertical creases, 13.5 cm, 8 cm and 7.5 cm long. Numerous further crease marks in the edges and corners with sporadic isolated losses of gelatin layer. Surface slightly stained and rubbed in places when viewed in raking light. Back slightly soiled
Literature and illustration
VU Magazine, Paris, No. 445 (23.9.1936), p. 1106 (there caption: Le jarret vif, la poitrine au vent, fusil au poing, ils dévalaient la pente couverte d'un chaume raide. Soudain l'essor est brisé, une balle a sifflé - une balle fratricide - et leur sang est bu par la terre natale...) / Life Magazine, Vol. 3, issue 2 (12.7.1937), p. 19 (there caption: Robert Capa's Camera Catches A Spanish Soldier The Instant He Is Dropped By A Bullet Through The Head In Front Of Cordoba) / Robert Capa: Death in the Making. New York 1938, title (there detail) / Robert Capa: Images of War. New York 1964, p. 22.23 / Centre National de la Photographie (ed.): Robert Capa. Paris, 1989, title and pl. 13 / Richard Whelan (ed.): Robert Capa. Die Sammlung. Berlin 2001, p. 81, pl. 110 (there caption: Cerro Muriano, Cordoba-Frint, Spanien, 5. September 1936, 'Der Fallende Soldat') / Exh. cat.: Robert Capa. Retrospektive. Berlin, Martin-Gropius-Bau, 2005, p. 50 (there titled and dated: Tod eines spanischen Loyalisten, Cerro Muriano (Front von Córdoba), 5 September 1936) / Bernard Lebrun and Michel Lefebvre: Robert Capa. The Paris Years 1933-1954. New York 2012, p. 98-99 (there titled: Death of Loyalist Militiaman) / Irme Schaber: Gerda Taro with Robert Capa as photojournalist in the Spanish Civil War. Stuttgart, London 2020, p. 63 (there book cover: Death in the Making. New York 1938), p. 65 (newspaper clipping) and p. 67 (there page from VU magazine, 23.9.1936) / Exh. cat.: Robert Capa, Icônes. Robert Capa: In the making. Deauville, Les Franciscaines, 2024, title (detail), p. 42-43 (there page from VU magazine, 23.9.1936), p. 44 (page from LIFE Magazine, 1937), p. 58 (there book cover: Death in the Making. New York 1938), p. 61 (there pressprint recto and verso)
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