The Fork, Paris

Artist André Kertész (American, born Hungary, 1894 - 1985)

Date1928; printed ca. 1975

MediumGelatin silver print

DimensionsImage: 10 13/16 × 13 11/16 inches (27.46 × 34.77 cm)
Sheet: 11 × 13 7/8 inches (27.94 × 35.24 cm)

Credit LineGift of Hallmark Cards, Inc.

Object number2005.27.1555

SignedSigned on sheet verso, center, in black pen; Artist's stamp on sheet verso, bottom, in black ink: "PHOTO BY / ANDRÉ KERTÉSZ"; Signed on mat recto, lower right, in pencil: "A. Kertész".

InscribedOn sheet verso, top, in blue pen: "Paris 1928."

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DescriptionImage of a fork with tines resting on edge of plate; stark shadows are cast below.Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Photographic Abstraction. Utah State University, Logan, UT, Sierra Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV, Fine Art Center/Cheekwood, Nashville, TN, Montgomery Museum of Art, AL, January – September 1987, no cat.

Published References

Keith F. Davis. André Kertész Form and Feeling. Kansas City, MO: Hallmark Cards, Inc. and The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1992, cover (repro.).

Sarah Greenough and Robert Gurbo, André Kertész. Washington D.C. : National Gallery of Art, in association with Princeton University Press, 2005. Published in conjunction with André Kertész, shown at the National Gallery of Art and Los Angeles County Museum of Art, plate 52 (repro.).

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