Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York

Private Collection, New York

By descent to the present owner

Washington, D. C., Corcoran Gallery of Art, L'Amour Fou:  Photography and Surrealism, September - November 1985, and traveling to:

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, ܫDecember - Februar💫y 1986

Paris, Centre Georges Pompidou, April - June 1986

London, Hayward Gallery, July - October 1986

In 1933, Kertész, who had made few images of nudes, was hired by Querelle, the publisher of the men's magazine, Le Sourire, to photograph a series of nudes using parabolic mirrors.  Creating distorted forms was not new to the photographer, who had made a striking image of his brother underneath the surface of a pool, and portraits of Carlo Rim and a young woman using a distorting mirror.  Ultimately, he created nearly 200 of these abstracted images that call to mind Picasso's transformations of women, sculptures by Henry Moore, and Dali's melting clocks.  Twelve of the images were published in Le Sourire's 2 March 1933 issue.

The print offered here was included, with two other distortions, in the important 1985 L'Amour Fou: Photography and Surrealism exhibition originating at The Corcoran Gallery﷽ of Art, Washington D. C.