Lot 79
  • 79

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 GBP
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Description

  • Henri Cartier-Bresson
  • 'Manhattan, New York', 1939
  • Signed, blindstamped
  • Gelatin silver print
  • Image: 24.1 x 35.5 cm / Paper: 30 x 40 cm
Silver print, printed later. Signed in ink and with the photographer's blind stamp in the lower margin.

Provenance

Directly from the artist

Literature

Henri Cartier-Bresson, The Man, The Image and The World, A Retrospective, London, Thames and Hudson, 2003, ill. pl. 320.

Condition

This print is in overall very good condition. With light retouching marks throughout the print, only visible in raking light. With a slightly softened upper right corner, and a light bump to the lower edge of the sheet.
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