The World of Henri Cartier-Bresson: Photographs from the Personal Collection of Peter Fetterman

The World of Henri Cartier-Bresson: Photographs from the Personal Collection of Peter Fetterman

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Henri Cartier-Bresson

Rome, Italy

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December 16, 04:15 PM GMT

Estimate

10,000 - 15,000 USD

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Henri Cartier-Bresson

1908 - 2004

Rome, Italy


large-format gelatin silver print, signed in ink and embossed in the margin, 1959, printed later

image: 17 ⅝ by 11 ¾ in. (44.8 by 29.8 cm.)

Acquired from the photographer

Jean-Pierre Montier, Henri Cartier-Bresson and the Artless Art (Boston, 1996), p. 55

Peter Fetterman, ed., Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Master Set (Santa Monica: Peter Fetterman Gallery, 2004), pl. 124

Clément Chéroux, Henri Cartier-Bresson, (Paris: Centre Pompidou, 2014), p. 352

'Poetry is two elements which are suddenly conflict – a spark between two elements. But it’s given very seldom, and you can’t look for it. It’s like if you look for inspiration. No, it just comes by enriching yourself and living.'


-Henri Cartier-Bresson, as quoted in ‘Henri Cartier-Bresson: ‘There Are No Maybes’,' The New York Times, 21 June 2013