Lot 103
  • 103

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 USD
bidding is closed

Description

  • Henri Cartier-Bresson
  • SEVILLE
  • gelatin silver print
gelatin silver print, signed in ink in the margin, framed, a Halsted Gallery, Birmingham, label on the reverse, 1933, printed later

Condition

This print, on lightly-textured paper, is in generally excellent condition. As is typical of Cartier-Bresson's later prints, scattered deposits of original retouching are visible in raking light. On the reverse, 'HG/135/80' is written in an unidentified hand in pencil.
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