Photographs
Photographs
Henri Cartier-Bresson
Eunuch of the Imperial Court of the Last Dynasty, Peking, China
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April 13, 06:33 PM GMT
Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 USD
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Henri Cartier-Bresson
1908 - 2004
Eunuch of the Imperial Court of the Last Dynasty, Peking, China
oversized gelatin silver print, signed and inscribed 'a Jeanne Merciér avec l'amité d'Henri Cartier-Bresson' in ink on the reverse, 1948
image: 23 ¼ by 15 ½ in. (59.1 by 39.4 cm.)
Private collection, France
Sotheby's Paris, 15 May 2012, Sale PF1220, Lot 53
Robert Delpire, ed., Henri Cartier-Bresson: Photographer (Boston, 1979), pl. 65
E. H. Gombrich, Tête-à-Tête: Portraits by Henri Cartier-Bresson (London, 1998), pl. 64
Peter Fetterman, ed., Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Master Set (Santa Monica: Peter Fetterman Gallery, 2004), pl. 48
Matthieu Humery, et al., Henri Cartier-Bresson: Le Grand Jeu (Paris: Bibliothèque nationale de France and Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson, 2020), pp. 136 and 284