Henri Cartier-Bresson
Madrid, Spain
Lot Closed
December 16, 03:05 PM GMT
Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Henri Cartier-Bresson
1908 - 2004
Madrid, Spain
gelatin silver print, signed in ink and embossed in the margin, 1933, printed later
image: 9 ¼ by 14 in. (23.5 by 35.6 cm.)
Acquired from the photographer
Robert Delpire, ed., Henri Cartier-Bresson: Photographer (Boston, 1979), pl. 27
Peter Galassi, Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Early Work (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1987), p. 111
Jean-Pierre Montier, Henri Cartier-Bresson and the Artless Art (Boston, 1996), cover of dust jacket and page 57
Peter Fetterman, ed., Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Master Set (Santa Monica: Peter Fetterman Gallery, 2004), pl. 131
Ann Thomas, Modernist Photograph from the National Gallery of Canada (Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 2007), p. 63
Peter Galassi, ed., Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Modern Century (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2010), p. 94
Clément Chéroux, Henri Cartier-Bresson, (Paris: Centre Pompidou, 2014), p. 77
Matthieu Humery et al., Henri Cartier-Bresson: Le Grand Jeu (Paris: Bibliothèque nationale de France and Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson, 2020), pp. 82, 132, 260, and 262
‘There are those who take photographs arranged beforehand and those who go out to discover the image and seize it. For me the camera is a sketch book, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity, the master of the instant which, in visual terms, questions and decided simultaneously.’
-Henri Cartier-Bresson, The Mind’s Eye: Writings on Photography and Photographers (New York: Aperture, 1999), p. 15
