Description
Oil, canvas; 71 x 86 cm
Signed l.d.: H Filipowicz 1888
Henryk FILIPOWICZ
1842 - after 1915
Photographer, painter and sculptor, theoretician of photography. After studying in Paris, he first settled in Lublin in 1872, where he worked in Wanda Chicińska's photographic studio. In 1874 he opened his own atelier in Warsaw. He then moved to Tiflis. In 1888 he brought to Warsaw an exhibition of his photographic works, many of which were made by a technique he invented and called "photo-sculptures." These photo-sculptures are what later became known as photographic relief. Asking price 8000
Estimate 10000 - 12000
Auction 203, 19.06.2021
