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Lot 7 KERTÉSZ -- PARIS PHOTOGRAPHS
There was a Hungarian dancer. She was called Magda. This photo was taken in the studio of Etienne Beöthy, a friend of mine who was a sculptor. ...I said to her, 'Do something with "the spirit of the studio corner",' and she started to move on the sofa. She just made a movement. I took only two photographs. No need to shoot a hundred rolls like people do today. People in motion are wonderful to photograph. It means catching the right moment -- the moment when something changes into something else. It shows a kind of distortion similar to that in the photograph of the swimmer.
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There was a Hungarian dancer. She was called Magda. This photo was taken in the studio of Etienne Beöthy, a friend of mine who was a sculptor. ...I said to her, 'Do something with "the spirit of the studio corner",' and she started to move on the sofa. She just made a movement. I took only two photographs. No need to shoot a hundred rolls like people do today. People in motion are wonderful to photograph. It means catching the right moment -- the moment when something changes into something else. It shows a kind of distortion similar to that in the photograph of the swimmer.
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ANDRÉ KERTÉSZ (1894-1985)
Satiric Dancer, Paris, 1926
Closed15 May 2008
Price Realised
GBP 228,500
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Specialist note
The present lot is the only known vintage enlargement of Satiric Dancer. Only three other vintage prints, all on carte postale, are known: one print, exhibited in Of Paris and New York, 1985, is from a Private Collection, New York; another print, exhibited in the 2005 retrospective, is from the Collection of Nicholas Pritzker; and a third print is in a Private Collection, Berlin.