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何藩 Fan Ho
It's Raining
Estimate
£4,000 - 6,000‡︎
Sold For
£7,560
Lot Details
1955
Gelatin silver print.
21.9 x 30 cm (8 5/8 x 11 3/4 in.)
Signed, titled, dated in ink, credit and 'Foto-Cine Clube Gaucho' stamps on the verso.
Specialist
Full-Cataloguing
Catalogue Essay
Chinese photographer Fan Ho is celebrated for his remarkable black-and-white photographs of Hong Kong taken in the 1950s and 60s. His experimentations with camera angles and cropping, as well as his dramatic use of light and shadow, resulted in highly stylised street scenes. As of this writing, no more than two prints of this image are known to exist.
Provenance