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André Kertész

Portrait of Jean, ca. 1930

Description

Maker

André Kertész, 1894-1985, American (b. Hungary)

Title

Portrait of Jean

Year

ca. 1930

Medium

Gelatin silver print

Materials/Techniques

Materials

Dimensions

21.8 x 15.7 cm (8 5/8 x 6 3/16 inches)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Signed below image along bottom margin in pencil:A. Kertész Paris

Type

Credit

Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Jaffe

Object Number

81.101

Projects & Publications

Publications

A Handbook of the Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design

Exhibition History

Facing Artists

February 27 - July 31, 2009

André Kertész’s poetic images of everyday life in Budapest, Paris, and New York evidence a modernist eye for abstraction. But his work was also autobiographical. This soft-focus portrait of Jean Ducrot, his Paris editor and publisher, ties Kertész to Pictorialist traditions (see Edward Steichen’s portrait of Matisse opposite wall), but Ducrot’s direct gaze at the camera is also distinctly modern, suggesting access to the sitter that only the camera could provide.

The Nancy Sayles Day Collection

January 4 - February 6, 1977

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