Classic Photographs
Classic Photographs
Henri Cartier-Bresson
Sunday on the Banks of the Seine, Near Juvisy-sur-Orge, France
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October 7, 02:59 PM GMT
Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 USD
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Henri Cartier-Bresson
1908 - 2004
Sunday on the Banks of the Seine, Near Juvisy-sur-Orge, France
gelatin silver print, signed in ink and embossed in the margin, framed, 1938, printed later
image: 11 ¾ by 17 ¾ in. (29.9 by 45.1 cm.)
frame: 22 ¼ by 28 ¼ in. (56.5 by 71.8 cm.)
Alinder Gallery, Gualala, 1998
Robert Delpire, ed., Henri Cartier-Bresson: Photographer (Boston, 1979), pl. 145
Peter Galassi, Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Early Work (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1987), p. 42
Jean-Pierre Montier, Henri Cartier-Bresson and the Artless Art (Boston, 1996), p. 118
Henri Cartier-Bresson, The Mind's Eye: Writings on Photography and Photographers (New York, 1999), p. 52
Peter Fetterman, ed., Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Master Set (Santa Monica: Peter Fetterman Gallery, 2004), pl. 98
Peter Galassi, ed., Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Modern Century (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2010), p. 150 and reverse of dust jacket
Clément Chéroux, Henri Cartier-Bresson, (Paris: Centre Pompidou, 2014), p. 168
Matthieu Humery et al., Henri Cartier-Bresson: Le Grand Jeu (Paris: Bibliothèque nationale de France and Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson, 2020), pp. 42-3, 80, and 248
Anne de Mondenard and Agnès Sire, eds., Henri Cartier-Bresson: Paris Revisited (London, 2021), cat. 25, pp. 64-5
While this photograph is commonly referred to as On the Banks of the Marne, it was in fact taken at a pond fed by the Seine at Juvisy-sur-Orge.