Sleeping Boy
1912
Artist, American, born Hungary, 1894 - 1985
Artwork overview
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Medium
gelatin silver print
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
sheet: 4.4 x 5.9 cm (1 3/4 x 2 5/16 in.)
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Accession
2000.170.1
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
The André and Elizabeth Kertész Foundation, New York, NY; gift to NGA, 2000.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
2005
André Kertész, National Gallery of Art, Washington; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles; International Center of Photography, New York, 2005, no. 2.
2009
In the Darkroom: Photographic Processes Before the Digital Age, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2009 - 2010, unnumbered catalogue.
2010
André Kertész, Galerie Nationale du Jeu de Paume, Paris; Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur; Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin; Hungarian National Museum, Budapest, 2010 - 2011, unnumbered catalogue.
Bibliography
1939
Browning, Arthur. "Paradox of a Distortionist." Minicam 2 (August 1939), 38.
1965
"Sleeping Boy." Infinity 14 (March 1965), cover (cropped).
1972
André Kertész: Sixty Years of Photography, 1912-1972. New York, 1972, pl. 34 (cropped).
1984
André Kertész: Magyarorszagon. Budapest, 1984, 15 (cropped).
1987
André Kertész: Diary of Light, 1912-1985. Millerton, 1986, pl. 3 (cropped).
1994
In Focus: André Kertész. Malibu, 1994, 144.
2010
André Kertész. Exh. cat., Galerie Nationale du Jeu de Paume, Paris; Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur; Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin; Hungarian National Museum, Budapest. Paris: Editions Hazan; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2010.
Wikidata ID
Q64074085