Henri Cartier-Bresson
Siena, Italy
Lot Closed
December 16, 03:07 PM GMT
Estimate
5,000 - 7,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Henri Cartier-Bresson
1908 - 2004
Siena, Italy
gelatin silver print, signed in ink in the margin, 1933, printed later
image: 14 ⅛ by 9 ½ in. (35.9 by 24.1 cm.)
Acquired from the photographer
Robert Delpire, ed., Henri Cartier-Bresson: Photographer (Boston, 1979), pl. 87
Peter Galassi, Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Early Work (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1987), p. 94
Jean-Pierre Montier, Henri Cartier-Bresson and the Artless Art (Boston, 1996), p. 85
Clément Chéroux, Henri Cartier-Bresson, (Paris: Centre Pompidou, 2014), p. 66
Matthieu Humery et al., Henri Cartier-Bresson: Le Grand Jeu (Paris: Bibliothèque nationale de France and Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson, 2020), pp. 114, 216, and 265
‘In photography, the smallest thing can be a great subject. The little, human detail can become a leitmotiv. We see and show the world around us, but it is an event itself which provokes the organic rhythm of forms.’
-Henri Cartier-Bresson, ‘The Decisive Moment,’ reproduced in The Mind’s Eye: Writings on Photography and Photographers (New York: Aperture, 1999), p. 29
