Unidentified Sitter

Photography and Media

1926/27

André Kertész
American, born Hungary, 1894–1985

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Photography and Media

Artist: André Kertész
Title: Unidentified Sitter
Place: United States (Artist's nationality)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: Made 1926–1927
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Inscriptions: Signed recto, on paper, lower left, below image, in graphite: "A. Kertész"; inscribed recto, on paper, lower right, below image, in graphite: "Paris"; verso unchecked
Dimensions: Image: 10.9 × 8 cm (4 5/16 × 3 3/16 in.); Paper: 11.7 × 8.3 cm (4 5/8 × 3 5/16 in.)
Credit Line: Wirt D. Walker Fund
Reference Number: 1984.545

Phillips, Sandra S., David Travis, and Weston J. Naef. 1985. “André Kertész: Of Paris and New York.” Exh. cat. Art Institute of Chicago/Metropolitan Museum of Art/Thames and Hudson. p. 141, cat. 39.
Greenough, Sarah, Robert Gurbo, and Sarah Kennel. 2005. “André Kertész.” Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art/Princeton University Press. p. 42.

Art Institute of Chicago, “André Kertész: Of Paris and New York,” May 10-July 14, 1985; traveled to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York, December 19, 1985-February 23, 1986. (David Travis, Sandra S Phillips, Weston J. Naef)
Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, “André Kertész,” February 6–May 15, 2005; traveled to Los Angeles County Museum of Art, June 12–September 5, 2005; International Center of Photography, New York, September 16–November 27, 2005.
Art Institute of Chicago, “Henri Cartier-Bresson and the Art and Photography of Paris,” September 20, 2008–January 4, 2009. (David Travis)

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