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

Prostitutes, Calle Cuauhtemocztin, Mexico

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December 16, 03:21 PM GMT

Estimate

6,000 - 9,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Henri Cartier-Bresson

1908 - 2004

Prostitutes, Calle Cuauhtemocztin, Mexico

 

gelatin silver print, signed in ink and embossed in the margin, 1934, printed later

image: 9 ⅜ by 14 in. (23.8 by 35.6 cm.)

Acquired from the photographer

Robert Delpire, ed., Henri Cartier-Bresson: Photographer (Boston, 1979), pl. 23

Peter Galassi, Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Early Work (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1987), p. 130

Jean-Pierre Montier, Henri Cartier-Bresson and the Artless Art (Boston, 1996), p. 23

E. H. Gombrich, Tête-à-Tête: Portraits by Henri Cartier-Bresson (London, 1998), pl. 30

Documentary and Anti-Graphic Photographs: Manuel Álvarez Bravo, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Walker Evans (Paris: Foundation Henri Cartier-Bresson, 2004), p. 183

Peter Fetterman, ed., Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Master Set (Santa Monica: Peter Fetterman Gallery, 2004), pl. 8

Peter Glassi, ed., Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Modern Century (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2010), p. 99

Clément Chéroux, Henri Cartier-Bresson, (Paris: Centre Pompidou, 2014), pp. 108-9

Matthieu Humery et al., Henri Cartier-Bresson: Le Grand Jeu (Paris: Bibliothèque nationale de France and Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson, 2020), pp. 140, 235, and 279