The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of April 19, 2024

Clock and Rope

Clock and Rope

1928
(American, 1894–1985)
America, 20th century
gelatin silver print
Image: 22.5 x 13.4 cm (8 7/8 x 5 1/4 in.)
John L. Severance Fund 2007.55
© Estate of A. Kertesz
Location: not on view

Description

Kertész shot this found still life in the offices of a Paris newspaper. During World War I, he photographed the front as a draftee in the Austro-Hungarian army and in 1925 came to Paris to pursue photojournalism and soon became part of Surrealist circles. In 1936 he moved to New York and spent the remainder of his life in America.
  • October 2, 1996
    (Sotheby's, New York, NY, Oct. 2, 1996, no. 222)
    October 2, 1996
    David Raymond [b.1979], New York, NY
    2007-
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
  • Cleveland Museum of Art, Tom E. Hinson, Ian Walker, and Lisa Kurzner. Forbidden Games: Surrealist and Modernist Photography : the David Raymond Collection in the Cleveland Museum of Art. 2014. cat. no. 7, p. 22
    Schaffner, Ingrid, Julien Levy, and Colin Westerbeck. Accommodations of Desire: Surrealist Works on Paper Collected by Julien Levy. Pasadena, Calif: Curatorial Assistance, Inc, 2004. p. 32
  • Forbidden Games: Surrealist and Modernist Photography. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 19, 2014-January 11, 2015).
    Accommodations of Desire: Surrealist Works on Paper Collected by Julien Levy. Palmer Museum of Art (September 14-December 5, 2004); McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, MA (January 16-March 27, 2005); Crocker Art Museum, Sacaramento, CA (July 9-September 11, 2005); Portland Museum of Art (January 1-March 19, 2006).
  • {{cite web|title=Clock and Rope|url=false|author=André Kertész|year=1928|access-date=19 April 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

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