Photographs

Henri Cartier-Bresson

'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

Henri Cartier-Bresson: Photographer (Boston, 1979), pl. 73 (variant image)

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)