Henri Cartier-Bresson

Silver print, probably printed in 1980s. Signed, dedicated Pour Gilbert en souvenir de Ratna très amicalement in ink and photographer's blind stamp in the lower margin.

Christie's Paris, Photographs, 14 November 2014, lot 344

Antonin Artaud, Les Danses à Bali, Paris, Delpire, 1954, ill cover and p. 11
Yves Bonnefoy, Henri Cartier-Bresson Photographe, Paris, Delpire, 1979, ill. p.81
Jean-Pierre Montier, L'art sans art L'art sans d'Henri Cartier-Bresson, Paris, Flammarion, 1995, ill. p.51
Henri Cartier-Bresson: de qui s'agit-il?, exhib. cat., Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale de France/Gallimard, 2003, ill. p.272Peter Galassi, Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Modern Century, exhib. cat., New York, Museum of Modern Art, 2010, ill. p.118

This silver print is in overall very good condition. Left and upper edges slightly worn. Two tiny crease at the lower edge and one in the center of the image, visible under raking light only.
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