ANDRÉ KERTÉSZ

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ANDRÉ KERTÉSZ

Jean Slivinsky, Herwarth Walden and Friends at Au Sacre du Printemps, Paris

Gelatin silver print on carte postale. 1927. Signed and annotated Paris in the margin, tipped to a facsimile vellum mount. 3 1/8 x 4¼in. (7.9 x 10.8cm.) Framed.
Provenance
The André and Elizabeth Kertész Foundation
Literature
Stranger to Paris, p. 10; see: Phillips et al., André Kertész, Of Paris and New York, p. 34 fig. 24.; and Naef, André Kertész: Photographs from the J. Paul Getty Museum, pl. 15, p. 39 for a similar printing on carte postale.

Lot Essay

Taken during Kertész's inaugural exhibition at Jean Slivinsky's gallery Au Sacre du Printemps, this group portrait reveals much of the scope of the photographer's life at the time. It is divided equally, pictorially speaking, between art and friends. Shown are his colleagues including Slivinsky (center with announcement), and Herwarth Walden, the director of the Berlin gallery and magazine Der Sturm. A dozen Kertész photographs and eight small geometric abstractions by Ida Thal, with whom Kertész shared the exhibition are visible as well.

A similar print of this image, also on carte postale and untrimmed, is in the collection of the J. Paul Getty Museum.