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Jewgeni Chaldej

Donezk/Ukraine 1917 – 1997 Moscow

Planes flying over the Reichstag, Berlin, april 1945.

Later gelatin silver print. 29 x 38,8 cm (29,8 x 39,8 cm) (11 ⅜ x 15 ¼ in. (11 ¾ x 15 ⅝ in.)).
This picture shows the following artwork: Jewgeni Chaldej. Planes flying over the Reichstag, Berlin, april 1945.

Estimate:

EUR 1,200

 

- 1,800

USD 1,600

 

- 2,400

Sold for:

2,318 EUR (incl. premium)

Auctions 187-192

Photography, Wednesday, 23.11.2011

Information

Later gelatin silver print. 29 x 38,8 cm (29,8 x 39,8 cm) (11 ⅜ x 15 ¼ in. (11 ¾ x 15 ⅝ in.)). In the right margin of the image signed in Cyrillic in black felt-tip pen as well as annotated by the artist: „23.7.1995, Moskwa“. Image slightly misplaced on the photographic paper.

1995 from Jewgeni Chaldej to the present owner

The picture is a photomontage. Chaldej: "The Reichstag with planes. I put the planes into the picture. When this shot appeared in 'Pravda' I got a letter from a pilot. He wrote, 'Dear Sir, I remember the day we bombed the Reichstag. My plane is the one at the end'"

Von Moskau nach Berlin, Bilder des russischen Fotografen Jewgeni Chaldej, ed. by Ernst Volland and Heinz Krimmer, Berlin 1999, p. 70

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