View full screen - View 1 of Lot 181. Calle Cuauhtemoctzin, Mexico City.

Works from the Collection of Byron R. Meyer with Partial Proceeds to Benefit the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Calle Cuauhtemoctzin, Mexico City

No reserve

Lot Closed

April 16, 05:20 PM GMT

Estimate

5,000 - 7,000 USD

We may charge or debit your saved payment method subject to the terms set out in our Conditions of Business for Buyers.

Read more.

Lot Details

Description

Works from the Collection of Byron R. Meyer with Partial Proceeds to Benefit the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Henri Cartier-Bresson

1908 - 2004


Calle Cuauhtemoctzin, Mexico City

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

image: 9 ⅜ by 14 ⅛ in. (23.8 by 35.9 cm.)

Executed in 1934, printed later.

Robert Delpire, ed., Henri Cartier-Bresson: Photographer, Boston 1979, pl. 23

Peter Galassi, Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Early Work, New York: The Museum of Modern Art 1987, p. 130

Jean-Pierre Montier, Henri Cartier-Bresson and the Artless Art, Boston 1996, p. 23

E. H. Gombrich, Tête-à-Tête: Portraits by Henri Cartier-Bresson, London 1998, pl. 30

Documentary and Anti-Graphic Photographs: Manuel Álvarez Bravo, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Walker Evans, Paris: Foundation Henri Cartier-Bresson 2004, p. 183

Peter Fetterman, ed., Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Master Set, Santa Monica: Peter Fetterman Gallery 2004, pl. 8

Peter Glassi, ed., Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Modern Century, New York: The Museum of Modern Art 2010, p. 99

Clément Chéroux, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Paris: Centre Pompidou 2014, pp. 108-9

Matthieu Humery et al., Henri Cartier-Bresson: Le Grand Jeu, Paris: Bibliothèque nationale de France and Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson, 2020, pp. 140, 235, and 279