Henri Cartier-Bresson

Sale of Gold in the last Days of Kuomintang, Shanghai, China

Lot Closed

April 7, 04:14 PM GMT

Estimate

10,000 - 15,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property of a Prominent Corporation

Henri Cartier-Bresson

1908 - 2004

Sale of Gold in the last Days of Kuomintang, Shanghai, China

gelatin silver print, the photographer's reproduction rights stamp, numerical notations in pencil, and a Metropolitan Museum of Art collection stamp, with number 1972.749.1 in pencil, on the reverse, framed, 1948, printed circa 1972

image: 7 ⅞ by 11 ⅞ in. (20 by 30.1 cm.)

frame: 16 ½ by 20 ½ in. (41.9 by 52.1 cm.)

Gift of the photographer to The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1972

Sotheby's New York, Important Photographs from the Metropolitan Museum of Art Including Works from the Gilman Paper Company Collection, 15 February 2006, Sale 8165, Lot 87, Solomon Fine Art, Monarch Beach, CA, as agent

China in Transition: A Moment in History (London, 1956), p. 57

Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Face of Asia (New York, 1972), pp. 170-71

Robert Delpire, et al., Henri Cartier-Bresson, Photographer (Boston, 1979), pl. 69