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ANDRÉ KERTÉSZ (1894-1985)
Lot 14KERTÉSZ -- PARIS PHOTOGRAPHS

ANDRÉ KERTÉSZ (1894-1985)

Distortion Portrait, Paris, 1927

Fermé15 May 2008

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GBP 12,500

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ANDRÉ KERTÉSZ (1894-1985)
Distortion Portrait, Paris, 1927
gelatin silver print
credit [Paris 2] and reproduction limitation [Paris 4] stamps, annotated 'Frauenporträt im Zerrspiegel' [Portrait of a woman in a distorting mirror] in unknown hand in German in pencil on verso
8¾ x 4 7/8in. (22 x 12.2cm.)

As lot 1.

Note du spécialiste

The present lot is the only known vintage print of this image.

Kertész made two portraits of this woman, the wife of a Hungarian commercial artist, in a garden globe. This marked the first of many instances of using a distorting element in his Paris photographs. For other examples of his experimentation, see lots 15, 22 and 23.