The World of Henri Cartier-Bresson: Photographs from the Personal Collection of Peter Fetterman
The World of Henri Cartier-Bresson: Photographs from the Personal Collection of Peter Fetterman
Henri Cartier-Bresson
Sale of Gold in the Last Days of the Kuomintang, Shanghai, China
Lot Closed
December 16, 03:45 PM GMT
Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 USD
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Henri Cartier-Bresson
1908 - 2004
Sale of Gold in the Last Days of the Kuomintang, Shanghai, China
gelatin silver print, signed in ink in the margin, 1948, printed later
image: 9 ½ by 14 ⅛ in. (24.1 by 35.9 cm.)
Acquired from the photographer
‘Shanghai – by til slag,’ Billed-Bladet, no. 3, 18 January 1949, unpaginated
‘Paniek in Shanghai,’ Der Spiegel, no. 17, 22 January 1949, p. 3
'The City of Despair,' Illustrated, 22 January 1949, pp. 8-9
‘Chinese Gold Rush,’ LIFE, vol. 6, no. 3, 31 January 1949, p. 21
Noir et blanc, 2 February 1949, pp. 72-3
Le Soir Illustré, 3 February 1949, pp. 12-3
Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Face of Asia (New York, 1972), pp. 170-1
Matthieu Humery et al., Henri Cartier-Bresson: Le Grand Jeu (Paris: Bibliothèque nationale de France and Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson, 2020), pp. 93, 173, 254, and 285