Henri Cartier-Bresson
Alberto Giacometti, rue d’Alésia, Paris
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December 18, 07:10 PM GMT
Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Henri Cartier-Bresson
1908 - 2004
gelatin silver print, signed in ink and blindstamped in the margin, framed, 1961, printed later
image: 14 by 9½ in. (35.7 by 24 cm.)
frame: 23½ by 17⅝ in. (58.4 by 43.2 cm.)
Shapiro Gallery, San Francisco, 2004
Henri Cartier-Bresson, The World of Henri Cartier-Bresson (London, 1968), pl. 114
Yves Bonnefoy and Robert Delpire, Henri Cartier-Bresson: Photographe (Paris, 1979), p. 10
Henri Cartier-Bresson and André Pieyre de Mandiargues, Henri Cartier-Bresson: Photoportraits (Paris, 1985), p. 93
Henri Cartier-Bresson, Henri Cartier-Bresson: Photographer (London, 1992), pl. 10
Henri Cartier-Bresson, Vera Feyder, and André Pieyre de Mandiargues, Paris à vue d'oeil (Seuil, 1994), no. 104
Henri Cartier-Bresson, Vera Feyder, and André Pieyre de Mandiargues, Henri Cartier-Bresson: à propos de Paris (London, 1994), pl. 104
Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Man, The Image and The World (London, 2003), pl. 212
De qui s'agit-il ? Henri Cartier-Bresson (Paris: Bibliothèque nationale de France, 2003), p. 168
Peter Galassi, Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Modern Century (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2010), p. 54
Clément Chéroux, Henri Cartier-Bresson (London, 2014), pl. 289
With a hunching posture nearly resembling his sculptures, Alberto Giacometti trudges through the rain in Henri Cartier-Bresson’s photograph. Vera Feyder’s essay “Henri Cartier-Bresson: Unshootable Views” equates Cartier-Bresson with the spirit of Paris. She extends that affinity to Giacometti through way of connection to Cartier-Bresson, “(…) he doffs his hat to the street people, and his heart goes out to them–as it does to Giacometti in the rain, to Genet in the café, to the tramp who sleeps tucked under the river embankment, huddled with his dog” (Henri Cartier-Bresson A Propos de Paris, p. 12). The characters Feyder chooses to include in this description, including mentioning Giacometti in this exact photograph, speaks to the importance of the legendary sculptor as part of Cartier-Bresson’s Paris.
Other prints of Alberto Giacometti, rue d'Alésia, Paris are held in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Princeton University Art Museum, and the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, among others.
