ANDRÉ KERTÉSZ (1894-1985)

Carrefour, Blois, 1930

Details

ANDRÉ KERTÉSZ (1894-1985)
Carrefour, Blois, 1930
gelatin silver print, printed 1930s
dated, variously annotated and numbered in pencil in an unknown hand (on the reverse of the mount and on recto of flaps attached to the mount); exhibition checklist number, title and date label (affixed to the reverse of the mount)
7 5/8 x 9¼in. (19.4 x 23.5cm.)

Provenance

From the Estate of the Artist;
Stephen Daiter Gallery, Chicago

Literature

Ducrot, ed., André Kertész: Sixty Years of Photography, Grossman Publishers, 1972, p. 138; André Kertész, History of Photography Series, Aperture, 1977, front cover; Kertész on Kertész, Abbeville Publishers, 1983, p. 67; André Kertész, I Grandi Fotografi, 1983, p. 50; André Kertész: The Manchester Collection, The Manchester Collection, 1984, pl. 45, p. 43; Borhan, ed., André Kertész: His Life and Work, Little, Brown and Co., 1994, pp. 83 and p. 181; André Kertész: Observations, Thoughts, Reflections, Stephen Daiter Gallery, 2005, p. 43

Exhibited

New York, The Museum of Modern Art, André Kertész, Photographer , November 1964 - January 1965, no. 14

Lot Essay

This is the very print that was included in Kertész's first museum exhibition in the USA at The Art Institute of Chicago in 1946.

The mount bears inscriptions that relate to the Chicago exhibition. The former wall label attached to the back originally had the title 'Paris', the subject of this exhibition. This has been crossed out and replaced with the more specific title 'Loire' as used in the checklist for the MoMA exhibition. The mount has been trimmed at both edges, but reattached so that the flaps could be folded back to allow the print to be framed in a standard size in a grouping with other prints, as can be seen in the MoMA installation view.

This is the earliest know print of one of Kertész's most famous photographs.

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