Lot 237
237
ANDRÉ KERTÉSZ

Portrait of Marcel Vertès

Details
ANDRÉ KERTÉSZ
Portrait of Marcel Vertès
Gelatin silver print. 1928. Signed and dated in pencil on the vellum mount; signed, dated, annotated Paris in pencil and credit stamp on the reverse of the mount.
6½ x 6 5/8in. (16.5 x 16.9cm.)
Literature
See: Borhan, André Kertész: His Life and Work, p. 87.

Lot Essay

Marcel Vertès (1895-1961) was a Hungarian born painter and printmaker. A fellow compatriot of Kertész's, he lived and worked for a time in Paris. His painted murals hang in the Café Carlyle in New York City.