Classic Photographs

HENRI CARTIER-BRESSON | HOBOKEN

Auction Closed

October 3, 04:15 PM GMT

Estimate

6,000 - 9,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

HENRI CARTIER-BRESSON

1908-2004

HOBOKEN

signed and warmly inscribed 'pour Romeo Martinez' in ink, title, date, 'Camera X,' and reduction notations in pencil and with the photographer's 'Photo Henri Cartier-Bresson' stamp and a 'Collection Romeo Martinez' stamp on the reverse, framed, 1947, printed in 1949

11¾ by 8 in. (29.9 by 20.3 cm.)

The photographer to Romeo Martinez, Paris

Sotheby's New York, 10 May 1983, Sale 5043, Lot 46

By descent to the present owner

‘La vision instantanée de Henri Cartier-Bresson,’ Camera, October 1955, vol. 34, no. 10, p. 471 (this print)

Henri Cartier-Bresson, America In Passing (Boston, 1991), unpaginated (variant)