Henri Cartier-Bresson
Avenue du Maine, Paris
Lot Closed
December 16, 03:15 PM GMT
Estimate
5,000 - 7,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Henri Cartier-Bresson
1908 - 2004
Avenue du Maine, Paris
gelatin silver print, signed in ink in the margin, 1932, printed later
image: 9 ⅜ by 14 ⅛ in. (23.8 by 35.9 cm.)
Acquired from the photographer
Robert Delpire, ed., Henri Cartier-Bresson: Photographer (Boston, 1979), pl. 9
Peter Galassi, Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Early Work (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1987), p. 67
Jean-Pierre Montier, Henri Cartier-Bresson and the Artless Art (Boston, 1996), p. 182
Documentary and Anti-Graphic Photographs: Manuel Álvarez Bravo, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Walker Evans (Paris: Foundation Henri Cartier-Bresson, 2004), p. 98
Matthieu Humery et al., Henri Cartier-Bresson: Le Grand Jeu (Paris: Bibliothèque nationale de France and Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson, 2020), p. 248
Anne de Mondenard and Agnès Sire, eds., Henri Cartier-Bresson: Paris Revisited (London, 2021), cat. 23, p. 43
'The greatest joy for me is geometry; that means a structure. You can’t go shooting for structure, for shapes, for patterns and all this, but it is a sensual pleasure, an intellectual pleasure, at the same time to have everything in the right place. It’s a recognition of an order which is in front of you.'
- Henri Cartier-Bresson, as quoted in 'Henri Cartier-Bresson: ‘There Are No Maybes’,' The New York Times, 21 June 2013
At the time of this writing, it is believed that no other print of this image has appeared at auction.
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