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Henri Cartier-Bresson

Behind the Gare Saint-Lazare, Paris

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Henri Cartier-Bresson

1908 - 2004

Behind the Gare Saint-Lazare, Paris


gelatin silver print, signed in ink and blindstamped in the margin, framed

image: 14¼ by 9½ in. (36.2 by 24.1 cm.)

frame: 20¼ by 16¼ in. (51.4 by 41.3 cm.)

Executed in 1932, printed no later than 1981.

Sotheby's New York, Photographs Sold for the Benefit of the International Center of Photography, 20 October 1981, Sale 4705, Lot 58

Acquired from the above by the present owner

Robert Delpire, ed., Henri Cartier-Bresson: Photographer (Boston, 1979), pl. 14

Peter Galassi, Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Early Work (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1987), p. 101

Henri Cartier-Bresson, À Propos de Paris (Boston, 1994), pl. 33

Jean-Pierre Montier, Henri Cartier-Bresson and the Artless Art (Boston, 1996), p. 96

Peter Hay Halpert, 'Collecting: I Want My HCB,' American Photo Magazine, September/October 1997, p. 84

Henri Cartier-Bresson, The Mind's Eye: Writings on Photography and Photographers (New York, 1999), p. 26

Documentary and Anti-Graphic Photographs: Manuel Álvarez Bravo, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Walker Evans (Paris: Foundation Henri Cartier-Bresson, 2004), p. 98

Peter Fetterman, ed., Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Master Set (Santa Monica: Peter Fetterman Gallery, 2004), pl. 96

Peter Galassi, ed., Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Modern Century (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2010), p. 81

Clément Chéroux, Henri Cartier-Bresson, (Paris: Centre Pompidou, 2014), p. 89

Anne de Mondenard and Agnès Sire, eds., Henri Cartier-Bresson: Paris Revisited (London, 2021), cat. 22, p. 47

Matthieu Humery et al., Henri Cartier-Bresson: Le Grand Jeu (Paris: Bibliothèque nationale de France and Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson, 2020), pp. 214 and 248