André Kertész 1894-1985

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Description

André Kertész
self-portrait, paris, 1927

titled and credited to the photographer by Susan Harder in pencil on the reverse, matted, framed, a National Gallery of Art André Kertész exhibition label on the reverse, 1927, printed 1927-30

Provenance

Acquired by Susan Harder from the photographer, late 1970s

Exhibited

National Gallery of Art, André Kertész, February – May 2005; and traveling to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, June – September 2005

Literature

This print:

Sarah Greenough, Robert Gurbo, and Sarah Kennel, André Kertész (National Gallery of Art, 2005), pl. 74

Variant prints:

Jane Corkin, André Kertész: A Lifetime of Perception (Toronto, 1982), p. 92

Susan Harder and Hiroji Kubota, eds., André Kertész: Diary of Light, 1912-1985 (Aperture, 1986). pl. 79

In Focus: André Kertész (The J. Paul Getty Museum, 1994), pl. 14

Annely Juda, André Kertész and the Avant Garde Photography of the Twenties and Thirties (London, 1999), pl. 54

Catalogue Note

The photograph offered here was selected by Sarah Greenough, Director of Photographs at the National Gallery of Art, for the National Gallery's retrospective of André Kertész’s work in 2005. The print has been in the collection of Susan Harder since the 1970s. Harder was the exclusive agent for Kertész’s work from 1976 until the photographer’s death in 1985.