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André Kertész

Portrait of Jean Ducrot

Maker

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

Title

Portrait of Jean Ducrot

Year

ca. 1930

Medium

Materials/Techniques

Techniques

Materials

silver print

Dimensions

21.8 x 15.7 cm (8 9/16 x 6 3/16 inches)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

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

Credit / Object Number

Credit

Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Jaffe

Object Number

81.101

Type

Publications

Exhibition History

Facing Artists
Twentieth Century Portraits from the Collection
Feb 27, 2009 – Jul 31, 2009

Label copy

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
Jan 04, 1977 – Feb 06, 1977

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Tombstone

André Kertész (American, b. Hungary, 1894-1985)
Portrait of Jean Ducrot, ca. 1930
Gelatin silver print
21.8 x 15.7 cm (8 9/16 x 6 3/16 inches)
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Jaffe 81.101

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