Koppitz dancers show the right moves

'Bewegungsstudie', or ‘Study of Movement’, by Rudolf Koppitz, is the most famous of six tipped-in photogravures, each with a protective glassine sheet, that make up Pictures from the Tyng Collection, a 1931 publication of the Royal Photographic Society.

A copy took £750 in a Stride & Son (18% buyer’s premium) sale on April 7.

Though Czech-born, …

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