Elixir of Life: Photographs from The Olbricht Collection
Valencia
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70,000 - 100,000 EUR
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Elixir of Life: Photographs from The Olbricht Collection
Henri Cartier-Bresson
1908 - 2004
Valencia
ferrotyped gelatin silver print, the photographer's 'Photo Henri Cartier' credit stamp and annotated '1' in red pencil on the reverse, framed
image: 9⅛ by 11¾ in. (23 by 29.5 cm.)
frame: 16⅞ by 20⅞ in. (43 by 53 cm.)
Executed in 1933.
Collection of Eva Besnyö
By descent to Yara Brusse
Sotheby’s Amsterdam, Photographs, including the Eva Besnyö Collection, 25 January 2005, Lot 9
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Berlin, me Collectors Room Berlin, The Moment Is Eternity: Works from the Olbricht Collection, September 2018 - January 2019
Lincoln Kirstein and Beaumont Newhall, The Photographs of Henri Cartier-Bresson (The Museum of Modern Art, 1947), p. 16
Henri Cartier Bresson, The Decisive Moment (New York 1952), unpaginated
Ben Maddow, Faces (Boston, 1977), pl. 495
Robert Delpire, et al, Henri Cartier-Bresson: Photographer (New York, 1979), p. 89
Peter Galassi, Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Early Work (New York, 1987), p. 107
Daniel Wolf, The Art of Photography, 1839-1989 (New Haven, 1989), pl. 280
Anxious Visions: Surrealist Art (Berkeley Art Museum, University of California, 1990), no. 150, p. 118
Jean-Pierre Montier, Henri Cartier-Bresson and the Artless Art (Boston, 1996), pl. 166, p.169
Documentary & Anti-Graphic Photographs by Cartier-Bresson, Walker Evans & Alvarez Bravo (Göttingen, 2004), p. 125
The Moment Is Eternity: Works from the Olbricht Collection (Berlin: me Collectors Room Berlin, 2019), p. 91 (this print)
Henri Cartier-Bresson: Le Grand Jeu (Venice: Palazzo Grazzi and Paris: Bibliothèque nationale de France, 2020), no. 104, p. 210
Beyond Colour: Black and White in the Pinault Collection (Rennes: Couvent des Jacobins, 2021), p. 27
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