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Elixir of Life: Photographs from The Olbricht Collection

Robert Capa

Death of a Loyalist Militiaman near Espejo, Córdoba Front, Spain

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Elixir of Life: Photographs from The Olbricht Collection

Robert Capa

1913 - 1954

Death of a Loyalist Militiaman near Espejo, Córdoba Front, Spain


gelatin silver print, the photographer's Magnum credit, Magnum Photos, and John Hillelson Agency stamps on the reverse, framed

image: 9¾ by 13⅝ in. (24.8 by 34.6 cm.)

frame: 17⅜ by 20½ in. (44 by 52 cm.)

Executed in 1936, printed before 1958.

Private collection, Paris

Private collection, Tokyo

Francoise Paviot, Paris

Acquired from the above in 2005 by the present owner

Krems, Kunstmeile Krems, Lebenslust & Totentanz, July - November 2010

Paris, La Maison Rouge, Mémoires du futur, la collection Olbricht, October 2011 - January 2012

Berlin, Atelierkomplex Lehderstrasse, NGORONGORO, 2015

Berlin, me Collectors Room Berlin, The Moment Is Eternity: Works from the Olbricht Collection, September 2018 - January 2019

 "La Guerre Civile en Espagne," VU Magazine, 23 September 1936, no. 445, p. 1106

LIFE , 12 July 1937, vol. 3, no. 2. p. 19

Cornell Capa, ed., The Concerned Photographer (New York, 1968), unpaginated

Cornell Capa, Bhupendra Karia, eds., Robert Capa, 1913-1954 (New York, 1974), cover, pp. 20-1

Sammlung Gruber, Photographie des 20. Jahrhunderts (Cologne: Museum Ludwig, 1985), p. 202

Cornell Capa and Richard Whelan, Robert Capa. Photographs (New York, 1985), pp. 42-3

Robert Capa: Photographs (New York, 1996), p. 39

Aperture, Heart of Spain: Robert Capa's Photographs of the Spanish Civil War (New York, 1999), p. 26

Robert Capa: Images of War (London, 1964), pp. 22-3

Richard Whelan, This Is War! Robert Capa at Work (New York, 2007), back cover and figs. 40, 43, 45, 47, 48, 58, 59, and 77

Lebenslust & Totentanz (Krems: Kunstmeile Krems, 2010), p. 102 (this print)

Mémoires du futur, la collection Olbricht (Paris: La Maison Rouge, 2011), p. 127 (this print)

The Moment Is Eternity: Works from the Olbricht Collection (Berlin: me Collectors Room Berlin, 2019), p. 129 (this print)

Michel Lefebvre, ed., Robert Capa: Death in the Making (Paris, 2024), cover and p. 61