Object number2001.6.14
Broken Plate
Date1929
Artist
André Kertész
(American b.Hungary, 1894-1985)
CultureHungarian, American
MediumGelatin silver print, printed 1960s
DimensionsImage: 10 5/8 x 13 3/4 in. (27 x 35 cm)
Sheet: 11 x 14 in. (28 x 35.6 cm)
Sheet: 11 x 14 in. (28 x 35.6 cm)
Credit LineAnonymous gift
On View
On viewPeriod20th c
Classification(s)
InscribedOn verso, by artist, center in pencil: 1929; by unidentified hand, upper left: pg 100; upper right: K-AK-05.0001; lower center within stamp, in ink: 2-0137-13-1-1-02; lower center edge in pencil: 2-0137-13-1-1-02 003
MarkingsOn verso, stamped lower center in ink: Print# ____ / ESTATE OF / ANDRÉ KERTÉSZ / © All rights reserved
BibliographyFrances Lehman Loeb Art Center. Histories of Photography. Poughkeepsie: FLLAC, 2003, p. 2; Greenough, Sarah, André Kertész, Robert Gurbo, and Sarah Diener Kennel. André Kertész. Washington, D.C: National Gallery of Art, 2005, pl. 94;
Kertész, André and Pierre Borhan. André Kertész, His Life and Work. 1st ed. Boston: Little, Brown, 1994, p. 101; Kertész, André. André Kertész: Sixty Years of Photography, 1912-1972 / Edited by Nicolas Ducrot. New York: Grossman, 1972, p. 101 Vassar Exhibitions
Exhibition HistoryHistories of Photography, Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY, July 5 - September 21, 2003DescriptionBlack and white image of the streets of Paris from above. Visible are buildings and a church in the distance, with terraced buildings in the mid-ground. The image has a black hole in the upper center with white cracks branching out across in all directions.
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