Lot 39
  • 39

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • Henri Cartier-Bresson
  • 'Egypt', 1950
  • Signed, blindstamped
  • Gelatin silver print
  • Image: 30 x 44.7 cm / Paper: 40 x 50 cm
Silver print, printed later. Signed in ink and with the photographer's blind stamp in the lower margin.

Provenance

Directly from the artist

Literature

Pieyre de Mandiargues, Henri Cartier-Bresson Photoportraits, Gallimard, 1985, ill. p. 259;
De qui s'agit-il ? Henri Cartier-Bresson, Bibliothèque nationale de France/Gallimard, 2003, ill. p. 241;
Sire et Nancy, Portraits par Henri Cartier-Bresson Le silence intérieur d'une victime consentante, Thames and Hudson, 2006, ill. p. 39.

Condition

This print is in overall very good to excellent condition. With some very light handling marks and retouching throughout the print, only visible in raking light.
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