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ANDRÉ KERTÉSZ (1894-1985)
Melancholic Tulip, 1939
gelatin silver print, printed later
signed, titled, dated and inscribed in pencil (verso); credited, titled, dated on affixed on museum and Sir Elton John Photography collection label (frame backing board)
image: 95⁄8 x 65⁄8 in. (22.4 x 16.8 cm.)
sheet: 97⁄8 x 77⁄8 in. (25 x 20 cm.)
Provenance
Jackson Fine Arts, Atlanta;
acquired from the above by the present owner, 1995.
Literature
Nicolas Ducrot, André Kertész: Sixty Years of Photography, Penguin Books, New York, 1978, p. 78.
Henri Cartier-Bresson, Andre Kertesz, The Manchester Collection, England, 1984, pl. 259, p. 163.
André Kertész, Photographe, La Musée, Paris, 1987, p. 93.
André Kertész, André Kertész, Aperture, Millerton, N.Y., 1997, p. 79.
André Kertész, Andre Kertesz and Avant-garde Photography of the Twenties and Thirties, Annely Juda Fine Art, London, 1999, pl. 70.
Sarah Greenough, André Kertész, National Gallery of Art; Princeton University Press, Washington D.C., 2005, p. 80.
Michel Frizot, André Kertész, Yale University Press, New Haven, 2010, p. 131.
Exhibited
Atlanta, High Museum of Art, Chorus of Light: Photographs from the Sir Elton John Collection, November 4, 2000– January 28, 2001.
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