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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Apr 1, 2024 | Sotheby's | New York | Photographs | 84 | $****** - ****** | Excellent | Satiric Dancer |
photographs
34.9 x 27.3 cm (13.75 x 10.75 in)
gelatin silver print
signed, dated, and annotated "Paris" in pencil on the reverse
Collection of artist Allan Chasanoff
Gifted by the above in 1991 to the present owner
Houston, Museum of Fine Arts, Tradition and the Unpredictable: The Allan Chasanoff Photographic Collection , 1994
John Szarkowski, André Kertész Photographer (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1964), p. 22
Nicholas Durcot, ed., André Kertész: Sixty Years of Photography, 1912-1972 (New York, 1972), p. 70
André Kertész (Paris: Centre d"Art et de Culture Georges-Pompidou and Contrejour, 1977), cover
André Kertész Photographe (Paris: Institut de France, 1977), p. 58
Jane Corkin, A Lifetime of Perception (New York, 1982), p. 1926
Sandra Phillips, David Travis, and Weston J. Naef, André Kertész, Of Paris and New York (The Art Institute of Chicago, 1985), p. 139
André Kertész: Diary of Light, 1912-1985 (New York: The International Center of Photography and Aperture, 1986), pl. 80
Pierre Borhan, André Kertész, His Life and Work (Boston, 1994), pp. 144 (variant), 145
André Kertész and Avant Garde Photography of the Twenties and Thirties (London, 1999), pl. 47
Sarah Greenough, Robert Gurbo, and Sarah Kennel, André Kertész (Washington, D. C.: National Gallery of Art and Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2005), pp. 98 (variant) and pl. 47
Michel Frizot and Annie-Laure Wanaverbecq, André Kertész (New Haven, 2010), pp. 87 and 242
Photographs from The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Sold to Benefit Acquisition Funds
André Kertész
1894 - 1985
Satiric Dancer
gelatin silver print, signed, dated, and annotated "Paris" in pencil on the reverse
image: 13¾ by 10¾ in. (34.9 by 27.4 cm.)
Executed in 1926, printed in the 1970s.
Please note that this lot will not be on view during the sale exhibition. It is located at our Long Island City, New York storage facility. If you would like to examine it in person before the sale please contact Anjli Patel at Anjli.Patel@sothebys.com
