Paul Arma's Hands and Shadows

Photography and Media

1928

André Kertész
American, born Hungary, 1894–1985

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Photography and Media

Artist: André Kertész
Title: Paul Arma's Hands and Shadows
Place: United States (Artist's nationality)
Date: Made 1928
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Inscriptions: Unmarked recto; verso unchecked
Dimensions: Image: 7.9 × 10.4 cm (3 1/8 × 4 1/8 in.); Paper: 8.2 × 10.6 cm (3 1/4 × 4 3/16 in.)
Credit Line: Edward E. Ayer in memory of Charles L. Hutchinson; Gladys N. Anderson, Samuel P. Avery, Mary and Leigh Block Memorial, Wentworth G. Field Memorial and Harriott A. Fox Endowments
Reference Number: 1990.166

Frizot, Michel and Annie-Laure Wanaverbecq. 2010. “Andre Kertesz.” Exh. cat. Hazan/Editions du Jeu du Paume. p. 130.

Art Institute of Chicago, “New Acquisitions: Modernist Photography,” December 1, 1990-April 21, 1991.
Art Institute of Chicago, “The Subject is Music: Photographs from the Permanent Collection,” September 28-December 1, 1996. (Sylvia Wolf)
Paris, Jeu de Paume, “Andre Kertesz,” September 28, 2010-February 6, 2011; traveled to the Fotomuseum Wintherthur, February 25-March 22, 2011; Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, June 11-September 11, 2011; Hungarian National Museum, Budapest, September 30-December 31, 2011.

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