Photographs
Photographs
'Forbidden City' (Beijing, China)
Lot Closed
April 7, 05:44 PM GMT
Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Henri Cartier-Bresson
1908 - 2004
'Forbidden City' (Beijing, China)
ferrotyped gelatin sliver print, extensively labeled and stamped, including LIFE photograph stamp with 'Bresson' in pencil, 'Dec 22 1948' and 'Peiping Essay 48' stamps, and with annotations in pencil and ink on the reverse, 1948
image: 6 ½ by 9 ⅜ in. (16.5 by 23.8 cm.)
frame: 13 ½ by 15 ¾ in. (34.3 by 40 cm.)
Time Inc. Picture Collection, New York
Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York, 2010
Jean-Pierre Montier, Henri Cartier-Bresson and the Artless Art (Boston, 1996), fig. 243 (variant image)
Clément Chéroux, Henri Cartier-Bresson: Here and Now (London and New York, 2014), pl. 363 (variant image)