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Lot 2 KERTÉSZ -- PARIS PHOTOGRAPHS
I like high shots. If you are on the same level you lose many things.
From Kertész on Kertész
I like high shots. If you are on the same level you lose many things.
From Kertész on Kertész
ANDRÉ KERTÉSZ (1894-1985)
Shadows of the Eiffel Tower, before May 1929
Closed15 May 2008
Price Realised
GBP 54,500
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Specialist note
Only four to five other vintage prints of Shadows of the Eiffel Tower are known. Three prints, all enlargements similar in size to the present lot, have been published and are held in the following institutions: one print close to full frame (as present lot) and exhibited in Of Paris and New York, 1985, is in the Julien Levy Collection, Art Institute of Chicago; another print, exhibited in The New Vision, 1989, is in the Ford Motor Company Collection, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; and the final print, exhibited in the 2005 retrospective, is at The National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC. The last two examples have the same cropping, eliminating the stairs at left and the three shadows at bottom.
Shadows of the Eiffel Tower was part of a series made on assignment to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the Eiffel Tower, first published in May 1929. Kertész worked with his friend Brassaï, fellow Hungarian émigré and photographer, who supplied the text to both the German and French publications.
Shadows of the Eiffel Tower was part of a series made on assignment to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the Eiffel Tower, first published in May 1929. Kertész worked with his friend Brassaï, fellow Hungarian émigré and photographer, who supplied the text to both the German and French publications.