The World of Henri Cartier-Bresson: Photographs from the Personal Collection of Peter Fetterman

The World of Henri Cartier-Bresson: Photographs from the Personal Collection of Peter Fetterman

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Henri Cartier-Bresson

Funeral of Bhagwan Sri Ramana Maharishi, Tiruvannamalai, India

Lot Closed

December 16, 03:51 PM GMT

Estimate

5,000 - 7,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Henri Cartier-Bresson

1908 - 2004

Funeral of Bhagwan Sri Ramana Maharishi, Tiruvannamalai, India

 

large-format gelatin silver print, signed in ink and embossed in the margin, 1950, printed later

image: 11 ⅝ by 17 ½ in. (29.5 by 44.5 cm.)

Acquired from the photographer

Robert Delpire, ed., Henri Cartier-Bresson: Photographer (Boston, 1979), pl. 78

Jean-Pierre Montier, Henri Cartier-Bresson and the Artless Art (Boston, 1996), p. 174

Matthieu Humery et al., Henri Cartier-Bresson: Le Grand Jeu (Paris: Bibliothèque nationale de France and Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson, 2020), p. 283