May 19, 2011 - Sale 2248

Sale 2248 - Lot 289

Price Realized: $ 48,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 18,000 - $ 22,000
KERTÉSZ, ANDRÉ (1894-1985)
Portfolio titled "A Hungarian Memory" complete with 15 images of the photographer's homeland. Silver prints, approximately 7 1/2x9 1/2 inches (19.1x24.1 cm.), and the reverse, each with Kertész's signature, in pencil, on verso; each individually matted with a sequential number debossed on verso. Folio, tan linen clamshell box, with the photographer's name debossed on the front cover; with the edition number, in ink, on the colophon; contents loose as issued. one of an edition of 100 numbered copies and 7 artist's proofs. 1914-1923; printed 1980

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"Bocskay Tér, Budapest," 1914 "Hungarian Landscape, Puszta," 1914 "Tisza-Szalka, 6 July," 1924 "Circus, Budapest, 19 May," 1920 "Hazy Day, Budapest, November," 1920 "Sunset, Esztergom, 15 May," 1917 "Wandering Violinist, Abony, 19 July," 1921 "My Brothers, Budapest," 1919 "The Swing, Esztergom, 26 September," 1917 "Trio, Ráczkeve, 6 May," 1923 "Heavy Burden, Esztergom," 1916 "Country Accident, Esztergom, September," 1916 "Transport, Braila, Rumania, 19 October," 1918 "Forced March to the Front between Lonié and Mitulen, Poland, 19 July," 1915 "Budafok," 1919.