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

Sumatra, Indonesia

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December 16, 03:47 PM GMT

Estimate

6,000 - 9,000 USD

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Henri Cartier-Bresson

1908 - 2004

Sumatra, Indonesia

 

gelatin silver print, signed in ink in the margin, 1949, printed later

image: 9 ⅜ by 13 ⅞ in. (23.8 by 35.2 cm.)

Acquired from the photographer

'The New Indonesia,' LIFE, 13 February 1950, pp. 92-3

Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Face of Asia (New York, 1972), pp. 98-9

Jean-Pierre Montier, Henri Cartier-Bresson and the Artless Art (Boston, 1996), p. 201

Peter Fetterman, ed., Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Master Set (Santa Monica: Peter Fetterman Gallery, 2004), pl. 43

Peter Galassi, ed., Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Modern Century (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2010), p. 119

Matthieu Humery et al., Henri Cartier-Bresson: Le Grand Jeu (Paris: Bibliothèque nationale de France and Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson, 2020), p. 284