Portrait of a Ballet Dancer, Paris
André Kertész
1927
Medium
gelatin silver print
Dimensions
overall: 9.5 x 6.1 cm (3 3/4 x 2 3/8 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
The Herbert and Nannette Rothschild Memorial Fund in memory of Judith Rothschild
Accession Number
1997.45.1
About the Artist
André Kertész
André Kertész, born Andor Kertész on July 2, 1894, in Budapest, Hungary, to a middle-class Jewish family, initially pursued a conventional path as a clerk at the Budapest Stock Exchange after graduating from the Academy of Commerce in 1912. Self-taught in photography after purchasing his first camera that year, he captured his early poetic visions of Hungarian landscapes and peasant life, includin...