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Art House: The Collection of Chara Schreyer

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Coney Island

Lot Closed

April 10, 05:04 PM GMT

Estimate

8,000 - 12,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Art House: The Collection of Chara Schreyer

Henri Cartier-Bresson

1908 - 2004

Coney Island


gelatin silver print, titled and dated in pencil, the artist's credit reproduction stamp, and with The Museum of Modern Art exhibition labels on the reverse, framed, a Fraenkel Gallery label on the reverse

image: 13¼ by 9⅜ in. (33.7 by 23.8 cm.)

frame: 23 by 18¼ in. (58.4 by 46.4 cm.)

Executed in 1946.


Please note that this lot will not be on view during the sale exhibition. It is located at our Long Island City, New York storage facility. If you would like to examine it in person before the sale please contact Anjli Patel at Anjli.Patel@sothebys.com

Private Collection

Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco

Acquired from the above in 2000 by the present owner

New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Henri Cartier-Bresson, February – April 1947

Peter Galassi, ed., Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Modern Century (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2010), p. 244