A <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book/first-edition?locale=en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">first edition</a> of Les Européens by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Henri%20Cartier-Bresson&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Henri Cartier-Bresson</a>.<ul><li>Henri Cartier-Bresson (French).</li><li>Paris: Éditions Verve, 1955.</li><li>Large quarto.</li><li>136 pages.</li><li>Black and white photographs printed in gravure by Draeger.</li><li>Text is in French, by Cartier-Bresson.</li><li>Design by Tériade and Marguerite Lang.</li><li>In presentation dust-jacket.</li><li>Bound in printed paper-covered boards illustrated after a design by Joan Miro in yellow, blue, red, and black; in a cream dust-jacket printed in grey.</li></ul> One of a small number of copies issued in a presentation dust-jacket with the printed name of the recipient, this example designated ‘à Monsieur Roger Loubry, européen...’ Roger Loubry was chief pilot, captain, and co-founder of the airline Union Aéromaritime de Transport (UAT). He made the first commercial air link between Paris and New York in 1946 and two years later was pilot for the first non-stop flight between the two cities. Les Européens is identical in format to Cartier-Bresson’s first book, Images à la Sauvette (1952). Both were published by Tériade (pseud. of Elfstratios Eleftheriades), editor of Minotaure and founder of Verve, who made a number of deluxe books with artists such as Matisse, Miró and Léger. The photographs in the present work were taken between 1950-5 and show ordinary people going about life in post-war Europe. In his introduction Cartier-Bresson sums up his role as a photojournalist simply by saying ‘I was there and this is how life appeared to me at that moment.’

Les Européens First Edition

Signed limited-edition copy of Rimbaud's Vowels with prints by Cartier-Bresson.<ul><li>Arthur Rimbaud (French).</li><li>Henri Cartier-Bresson (French).</li><li>Translated by Wallace Fowlie (American).</li><li>[New York]: The Limited Editions Club,&nbsp;1996.</li><li>Oblong quarto.</li><li>Illustrated with three watercolor woodblock prints by Henri Cartier‑Bresson.</li><li>Edition limited to 300 numbered copies signed by Cartier-Bresson.&nbsp;</li><li>Bound in original linen with a linen clamshell box.</li></ul> "A forerunner of the surrealists, Arthur Rimbaud wrote every one of his extant poems before he was twenty years old, including the 'Sonnet des voyelles ('Vowels'), here presented in French and with the English translation by Wallace Fowlie on alternating lines. The poet has assigned colors to the vowels — A black, E white, I red, O blue, U green. 'I flattered myself that I was inventing a poetic language available ... to all the senses,' wrote Rimbaud. 'The Star Wept' — a quatrain which further explores color symbolism — is appended to 'Vowels' to complete this edition. Henri Cartier‑Bresson, who is as famous for his paintings as for his photographs, has created three swirling watercolors which further explore the evocative power of colors" (Publisher). Cartier‑Bresson’s three watercolors have been translated into multicolor wood blocks by Keiji Shinohara. Each required the cutting of twenty‑three to thirty separate blocks, one for each color.

Vowels

A <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book/first-edition?locale=en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">first edition</a> of Images a la Sauvette by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Henri%20Cartier-Bresson&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Henri Cartier-Bresson</a>.<ul><li>Henri Cartier-Bresson (French).</li><li>Paris: Éditions Verve, 1952.</li><li>Large quarto.</li><li>154 pages.</li><li>Black-and-white photographs printed in gravure by Draeger.</li><li>Text in French, by Cartier-Bresson.</li><li>Design by Tériade and Marguerite Lang.</li><li>Plain endpapers, printed white paper-covered boards illustrated after a design by Matisse in black, blue and green.</li></ul> Images à la Sauvette was conceived by Tériade (pseud. of Elfstratios Eleftheriades), editor of Minotaure and founder of Verve, who made a number of deluxe illustrated books with artists such as Matisse, Miró, and Léger. The photographs in this collection perfectly illustrate Cartier-Bresson’s notion of ‘l’instant décisif’. In his preface Cartier-Bresson writes ‘To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event as well as of a precise organization of forms which give that event its proper expression... if the shutter was released at the decisive moment, you have instinctively fixed a geometric pattern without which the photograph would have been both formless and lifeless.’

Images a la Sauvette: Photographies par Henri Cartier-Bresson First Edition

First English edition of The Europeans inscribed by Eli Wallach, the companion volume to Cartier-Bresson's seminal text, The Decisive Moment.<ul><li>Henri Cartier-Bresson (French).</li><li>New York:&nbsp;Simon and Schuster,&nbsp;1955.</li><li>Printed in France by Draeger.&nbsp;</li><li>114 pages [xvi].</li><li>Quarto.</li><li>Includes numerous black and white photographs.</li><li>Inscribed on front free endpaper "To "Gadge"…" from Eli Wallach.</li><li>In pictorial boards by Joan Miró, in partial scarce original acetate jacket with attached printed paper flaps, and captions booklet laid in.</li></ul> This copy of Henri Cartier-Bresson's The Europeans bears the unique provenance of being gifted from director and actor Eli Wallach to director Elia Kazan. Wallach, known for his role as Silva Vacarro in Kazan's screen adaptation of Tennessee Williams' Baby Doll which premiered the same year that he inscribed this book, and for co-starring with Clint Eastwood in The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly was also a founding member of the Actors Studio. In his inscription to Kazan, he says, "To 'Gadge' From one picture-maker to another. All my love. —Eli".

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