Lot 141
  • 141

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Estimate
12,000 - 18,000 EUR
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Description

  • Henri Cartier-Bresson
  • Rue Mouffetard, 1954
  • photograph
Silver print, probably printed in the 1980s. Signed in ink and photographer's blind stamp in the lower margin.

Provenance

Private collection, UK

Literature

Yves Bonnefoy, Henri Cartier-Bresson Photographe, Paris, Delpire, 1979, ill. p.140
Jean-Pierre Montier, L'art sans art L'art sans d'Henri Cartier-Bresson, Paris, Flammarion, 1995, ill. p.157
Peter Galassi, Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Man, the Image and the World, London, Thames and Hudson, 2003, pl. 65.
Peter Galassi, Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Modern Century, exhib. cat., New York, Museum of Modern Art, 2010, pl. 245

Condition

This silver print is in overall very good condition. Signature is slightly faded. Upper left corner slighly worn. In the upper right corner, a light handling mark. Under raking light only are visible three tiny handling marks in the upper part.
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Catalogue Note

© Henri Cartier-Bresson/Magnum Photos