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
Henri Cartier-Bresson
Shop Window, Budapest, Hungary
Lot Closed
December 16, 03:13 PM GMT
Estimate
6,000 - 9,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Henri Cartier-Bresson
1908 - 2004
Shop Window, Budapest, Hungary
large-format gelatin silver print, signed in ink and embossed in the margin, 1931, printed later
image: 17 ½ by 13 ⅜ in. (44.5 by 34 cm.)
Acquired from the photographer
Robert Delpire, ed., Henri Cartier-Bresson: Photographer (Boston, 1979), pl. 97
Peter Galassi, Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Early Work (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1987), p. 55
Peter Fetterman, ed., Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Master Set (Santa Monica: Peter Fetterman Gallery, 2004), pl. 128
Peter Galassi, ed., Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Modern Century (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2010), p. 33
Clément Chéroux, Henri Cartier-Bresson, (Paris: Centre Pompidou, 2014), p. 48
Matthieu Humery et al., Henri Cartier-Bresson: Le Grand Jeu (Paris: Bibliothèque nationale de France and Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson, 2020), p. 269
'I owe my allegiance to surrealism because it taught me to let the lens rummage through the rubble of the unconscious and coincidence.'
-Henri Cartier-Bresson, as quoted in André Breton, roi soleil (Fontfroide-le-Haut: Fata Morgana, 2005), unpaginated