Lot Essay
This photograph was made with Michel Seuphor who shared an affection for the rooftops of Paris. Joining Kertész in his photographic jaunts, Seuphor practiced his own amateur photography.
Details
ANDRÉ KERTÉSZ
Rooftops and Chimneys, Paris
Gelatin silver print on carte postale. 1926. Signed and annotated Paris in pencil on the original vellum mount. 4 1/8 x 2¼in. (10.5 x 5.7cm.) Framed.
Rooftops and Chimneys, Paris
Gelatin silver print on carte postale. 1926. Signed and annotated Paris in pencil on the original vellum mount. 4 1/8 x 2¼in. (10.5 x 5.7cm.) Framed.
Provenance
The Estate of André Kertész.
This print was one of twenty-one cartes postales included in the folio discovered after Kertész's death in 1985.
This print was one of twenty-one cartes postales included in the folio discovered after Kertész's death in 1985.
Literature
Stranger to Paris, p. 75; see: Phillips et al., André Kertész: Of Paris and New York, p. 26, fig. 13; Wilde, pl. 10.