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Artist or Maker: ANDRÉ KERTÉSZ (1894-1985)
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Literature: This image is reproduced with cropping variations in the following publications: Ungar, 'Kleine Lügen, Dialog zwischen Ehelenten,' Die Dame, October 1927, p.2; Szarkowski, André Kertész, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1964, p.22; Fárová, André Kertész, Paragraphic, 1966, pl.28; Ducrot (ed.), André Kertész: Sixty Years of Photography, 1912-1972, Grossman, 1972, p.70 (fig.4); Corkin (ed.), André Kertész: A Lifetime of Photography, Thames & Hudson, 1982, p.243; ANDRÉ KERTÉSZ: The Manchester Collection, 1984, p.138, no.223 (fig.5); Phillips, Photographic Work of Kertész in France, CUNY, 1985, no.1926.16; Phillips et al., André Kertész: Of Paris and New York, Thames & Hudson, 1985, p.139, no.25; André Kertész: Photographe, Musée Jacquemart-André, Paris, 1987, p.58 (fig.6); Greenough et al., On the Art of Fixing a Shadow: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Photography, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1989, p.299, no.242; Borhan (ed.) André Kertész: Ma France, La Manufacture, 1990, p.41; André Kertész, Aperture Masters of Photography, Aperture, 1993, p.75; Borhan (ed.), André Kertész: His Life and Work, Little, Brown & Co., 1994, p.145; Loengard, Celebrating the Negative, Arcade Publishing, 1994, front cover (negative); André Kertész: Photographien 1925-1936, Schirmer/Mosel, 1995, pl.31; Greenough et al., André Kertész, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC/Princeton University Press, 2005, pl.47; Photofile: André Kertész, Thames & Hudson, 2007, pl.21.
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Notes: KERTÉSZ -- PARIS PHOTOGRAPHS
There was a Hungarian dancer. She was called Magda. This photo was taken in the studio of Etienne Beöthy, a friend of mine who was a sculptor. ...I said to her, 'Do something with "the spirit of the studio corner",' and she started to move on the sofa. She just made a movement. I took only two photographs. No need to shoot a hundred rolls like people do today. People in motion are wonderful to photograph. It means catching the right moment -- the moment when something changes into something else. It shows a kind of distortion similar to that in the photograph of the swimmer.
From Kertész on Kertész
The present lot is the only known vintage enlargement of Satiric Dancer. Only three other vintage prints, all on carte postale, are known: one print, exhibited in Of Paris and New York, 1985, is from a Private Collection, New York; another print, exhibited in the 2005 retrospective, is from the Collection of Nicholas Pritzker; and a third print is in a Private Collection, Berlin.
