Lion and Shadow
1949
André Kertész
Artist, American, born Hungary, 1894 - 1985
Artwork overview
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Medium
gelatin silver print mounted on paperboard
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
image: 24.3 × 19.5 cm (9 9/16 × 7 11/16 in.)
mount: 43.3 × 35.8 cm (17 1/16 × 14 1/8 in.) -
Accession Number
1998.90.5
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
The André and Elizabeth Kertész Foundation, New York, NY; gift to NGA, 1998.
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. 82.
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
1972
André Kertész: Sixty Years of Photography, 1912-1972. New York, 1972: p. 218.
1994
André Kertész: His Life and Work. New York, 1994: p. 30.
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
Q64073972