André KertészAmerican, 1894–1985Untitled (Self-Portrait Contemplating the Devil or "Scherzo")
Can I see it?
Not on view at present
Where is “Untitled (Self-Portrait Contemplating the Devil or "Scherzo")” now? Collection: Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago. Not on view at present. Checked September 29, 2026.
Chicago, United States
It belongs to the collection, but is not on display at present.
- Checked
- In this state since
- Source
- The museum
Details
- Accession number
- 2014.114
What it shows
In the catalog
Sources
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Image: Art Institute of Chicago — © the artist or rights holder
In the life of André Kertész
The whole life1977–1982
Honours, 1977–1982
In 1977 he receives the Mayor’s Award of Honor for Arts and Culture in New York (and again in 1981); in 1980 the Medal of the City of Paris and the first Annual Award of the Association of International Photography Art Dealers; in 1981 an honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts from Bard College; and in 1982 the National Grand Prize of Photography in Paris and the 21st Annual George Washington Award from the American Hungarian Foundation.
1979
Polaroid gives him an SX-70 camera
The Polaroid Corporation gives him one of its new SX-70 cameras, which he experiments with into the 1980s.
1980
Arnaud Maggs’s portrait mosaic
Kertész sits for the Canadian artist Arnaud Maggs, resulting in the large-scale portrait project André Kertész, 144 Views (1980), which, according to Maggs, Kertész described as a “portrait mosaic”.
