Lot 73
  • 73

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Estimate
7,000 - 10,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • Henri Cartier-Bresson
  • 'Brussels, Belgium', 1932
  • Signed in black ink lower right margin recto and blindstamped
  • Gelatin silver print
  • Image: 24 x 35.5 cm / Paper: 30 x 40 cm
Silver print, printed later. Signed in black ink and with the photographer's blind stamp in the lower margin.

Provenance

Directly from the artist

Literature

Lincoln Kirstein and Beaumont Newhall, The Photographs of Henri Cartier-Bresson, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1947, ill. p. 30;
Henri Cartier-Bresson, Henri Cartier-Bresson: Photographer, Boston, Little, Brown & Co., 1979, ill. pl. 155;
Peter Galassi, Philippe Arbaizar, Jean Clair, Robert Delpire, Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Man, the Image and the World: A Retrospective, Thames & Hudson, 2003, ill. p. 57, pl. 43;
Agnès Sire and Michel Frizot, Henri Cartier-Bresson: Scrapbook, Photographs 1932-1946, Thames & Hudson, London, 2006, cat. no. 16, ill. p. 83;
Peter Galassi, Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Modern Century, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2010, ill. p. 87.

Condition

This print is in overall good condition. With light retouching marks throughout the print, and with two minor scratches in the centre of the image, only visible in raking light. With a creased lower right corner, and slightly softened other corners and edges. There are remnants of tape affixed along the top edge of the print on the reverse.
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