West 134th Street, New York
1944
Artist, American, born Hungary, 1894 - 1985
André Kertész
Artwork overview
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Medium
gelatin silver print
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
image: 24.6 x 19.7 cm (9 11/16 x 7 3/4 in.)
sheet: 25.3 x 20.5 cm (9 15/16 x 8 1/16 in.) -
Accession Number
1999.132.1
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Credo, Ltd., New York, NY; Private collection; (sale, Christie's, New York, 5 October 1999, no. 17); purchased with funds donated from The André and Elizabeth Kertész Foundation by NGA, 1999.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
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
1976
Of New York...André Kertész. New York, 1976: 38.
1994
Borhan, Pierre. André Kertész: His Life and Work. Boston and New York, 1994: 233.
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.
Inscriptions
all on verso: upper center in graphite: 134th St. West.; center in graphite: 10-12-44; center, stamped in black ink: artist's stamp; all by later hands: upper left in graphite: 2069 / 8; upper center in graphite: 163 (circled); right center in graphite: crop where / necessary / Minicam (underlined)
Wikidata ID
Q64073988