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ANDRÉ KERTÉSZ (1894–1985)
Fork, Paris, 1928
gelatin silver print, printed later
numbered '2-0136-13-1-02' in pencil in estate copyright credit stamp (verso); credited, titled and dated on affixed Sir Elton John Photography collection label (frame backing board)
image: 105⁄8 x 131⁄2 in. (26.9 x 34.2 cm.)
sheet: 103⁄4 x 133⁄4 in. (27.3 x 34.9 cm.)
Provenance
Hamiltons Gallery, London;
acquired from the above by the present owner, 1995.
Literature
Pierre Borhan, André Kertész, His Life and Work, Little, Brown, Boston, 1944, p. 175.
André Kertész, André Kertész: Sixty Years of Photography, Penguin Books, New York, 1972, p. 117.
Sandra S. Phillips, André Kertész: Of Paris and New York, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, 1985, p. 160.
Sarah Greenough, André Kertész, National Gallery of Art; Princeton University Press, Washington D.C., 2005, p. 52.
Michel Frizot, André Kertész, Yale University Press, New Haven, 2010, p. 131.
Renhold Misselbeck, 20th Century Photography, Taschen, Cologne, Germany, 2012, p. 331.
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