Lot 70
  • 70

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Estimate
5,000 - 7,000 GBP
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Description

  • Henri Cartier-Bresson
  • 'Calle Cuauhtemoctzin, Mexico City', 1934
  • Silver print.
Silver print, printed later. Signed in black ink and with the photographer's copyright blind stamp in the lower margin. 

Literature

Peter Galassi, Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Early Work, New York, Museum of Modern Art, 1987, ill. cover and p. 130;
The New Vision: Photography between the World Wars, exh. cat., New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1995, ill. pl. 41; 
Peter Galassi, Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Modern Century, exh. cat., New York, Museum of Modern Art, 2010, ill. p. 99.

Condition

This print is in very good general condition. With random light flowering mostly in the lower left quadrant away from the image and with random very light flowering visible in raking light only.
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