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Lot 14 KERTÉSZ -- PARIS PHOTOGRAPHS
ANDRÉ KERTÉSZ (1894-1985)
Distortion Portrait, Paris, 1927
Closed15 May 2008
Price Realised
GBP 12,500
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Specialist note
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.
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.