Lot 46
  • 46

André Kertész (1894 - 1985)

Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 EUR
bidding is closed

Description

  • André Kertész
  • Satiric Dancer, 1926
Tirage argentique, probablement des années 1980. Contrecollé sur carton. Signé et daté au crayon en-dessous du tirage sur le carton.

Provenance

Galerie Rudolf Kicken, Cologne

Literature

On the Art of Fixing a Shadow. One Hundred and Fifty Years of Photography, cat. expo. National Gallery of Art, The Art Institute of Chicago, 1989, ill. p. 299;
Pierre Borhan, André Kertész. His Life and Work, New York, Little Brown, 1994, ill. p. 145;
André Kertész and Avant-Garde Photography of the Twenties and Thirties, cat. expo. Annely Juda Fine Art, Londres, 1999, ill. p. 47;
Chorus of Light. Photographs from the Sir Elton John Collection, cat. expo. High Museum of Art, Atlanta, 2001, ill. p. 183;
Annette et Rudolf Kicken/ Simone Förster, Points of View. Masterpieces of Photography and Their Stories, Göttingen, Steidl, 2007, ill p. 102;
Michel Frizot/ Annie-Laure Wanaverbecq, Kertész, cat. expo. Jeu de Paume, Paris, Hazan, 2010, ill. p. 87.

Condition

The print is in very good condition. With one tiny spot of abrasion in the lower half just left of the vertical centre line, a few spots of retouching and three tiny chips at the left edge.
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