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Henri Cartier-Bresson

Madrid, Spain

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October 23, 07:10 PM GMT

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8,000 - 12,000 USD

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6,000 USD

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Description

Henri Cartier-Bresson

1908 - 2004

Madrid, Spain 


gelatin silver print, signed in ink in the margin, framed

image: 9½ by 15 in. (24.1 by 38.1 cm.)

frame: 16½ by 20⅛ in. (41.9 by 51.1 cm.)

Executed in 1933, printed later.

Helen Wright/The Atelier Group Ltd., New York

Acquired from the above in 1980 by the present owner

Lincoln Kirstein and Beaumont Newhall, The Photographs of Henri Cartier-Bresson (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1947), p. 111

Robert Delpire, ed., Henri Cartier-Bresson: Photographer (Boston, 1979), pl. 27

Peter Galassi, Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Early Work (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1987), p. 111

Jean-Pierre Montier, Henri Cartier-Bresson and the Artless Art (Boston, 1996), dust jacket and p. 57

Peter Fetterman, ed., Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Master Set (Santa Monica: Peter Fetterman Gallery, 2004), pl. 131

Ann Thomas, Modernist Photographs from the National Gallery of Canada (Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 2007), p. 63

Peter Galassi, ed., Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Modern Century (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2010), p. 94

Clément Chéroux, Henri Cartier-Bresson, (Paris: Centre Pompidou, 2014), p. 77

Matthieu Humery et al., Henri Cartier-Bresson: Le Grand Jeu (Paris: Bibliothèque nationale de France and Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson, 2020), pp. 82, 132, 260, and 262