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Property of The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Sold to Benefit its Acquisitions Program

André Kertész

Distortion #126

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Property of The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Sold to Benefit its Acquisitions Program

André Kertész

1894 - 1985


Distortion #126

a typed Museum of Modern Art collection label (on the reverse)

gelatin silver print, mounted

4⅝ by 5⅞ in. 

11.7 by 14.9 cm.

Executed in 1933, printed no later than 1964.

New York, The Museum of Modern Art, André Kertész, November 1964 - January 1965

New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Kertész, Rodchenko, and Moholy-Nagy: Photographs from the Collection, January - June 1974

New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Making Choices (Cycle II of MoMA 2000) ANATOMICALLY INCORRECT, April - September 2000

André Kertész: Photographer, New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1964, p. 43, illustrated

Nicolas Ducrot, ed, Distortions: André Kertész, New York, 1976, no. 126, illustrated

Pierre Borhan, André Kertész: His Life and Work, Paris: Pavillon des Arts (no I), 1994, p. 206, illustrated

André Kertész and Avant Garde Photography of the Twenties and Thirties, London, 1999, no. 65, illustrated

Michel Frizot and Annie-Laure Wanaverbecq, André Kertész, Paris: Jeu de Paume, 2010, p. 168, illustrated