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Elixir of Life: Photographs from The Olbricht Collection

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Valencia

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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