SignedSigned on mount recto, lower right, in pencil: "A. Kertész"
InscribedDated on mount recto, lower left, in pencil: "1928"
MarkingsOn mount recto, lower left corner, in blindstamp:"8";
On mount verso, upper left, in pencil: "$5500 / HYYY / Kertesz / Meudon / printed later";
On mount verso, top, in pencil: "#4130".
DescriptionImage of a street scene in the Paris suburb of Meudon. In the foreground a man walks toward the camera with a wrapped package under one arm. In the upper background, a train is passing on an elevated stone viaduct.Exhibition History
André Kertész Form and
Feeling. Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia, February 15 – April 20,
1992, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, May 20 – July 26,
1992, Auckland City Art Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand, September 3 – November 1,
1992, no. 30 cat.
Art in the Age of Steam: Europe, America and the Railway, 1830-1960. Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, April 18 - August 10, 2008, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, September 13, 2008 - January 18, 2009, no. 96.
Rotation 23. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, January 18 – May 28, 2017, no cat.
Gallery Label
This image presents a kind of surrealist dream—a mysterious and unlikely conjunction of objects, actions, and people. André Kertész’s vision combines a folk-art kind of directness and simplicity with a high-modernist quality of abstraction and ambiguity. One of the most famous names in modern photography, Kertész worked steadily from 1912 until his death in 1985. He started in his native city of Budapest, but first gained professional recognition after his moveto Paris in 1925.
Provenance
Dr. Jeffrey Kramer, Kansas City, MO; Given by Sr. Jeffrey Kramer to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2003.
Published References
Keith F. Davis. André
Kertész Form and Feeling. Kansas City, MO: Hallmark Cards, Inc. and The Nelson-Atkins
Museum of Art, 1992, 3 (repro.).
Ian Kennedy and Julian Treuherz. The Railway: Art in the Age of Steam.
Kansas City, MO: The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art; Liverpool: National Museums
Liverpool, in association with Yale University Press, 2008. Published in
conjunction with the exhibition Art in
the Age of Steam: Europe, America and the Railway, 1830-1960, shown at the
Walker Art Gallery and The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 231 (repro.).
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