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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Oct 16, 2025 | Sotheby's | New York | Photographs Part II | 170 | $****** - ****** | Madrid, Spain |
photographs
24.1 x 38.1 cm (9.5 x 15 in)
gelatin silver print, framed
signed in ink in the margin
Helen Wright/The Atelier Group Ltd., New York
Acquired from the above in 1980 by the present owner
Lincoln Kirstein and Beaumont Newhall, The Photographs of Henri Cartier-Bresson (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1947), p. 111
Robert Delpire, ed., Henri Cartier-Bresson: Photographer (Boston, 1979), pl. 27
Peter Galassi, Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Early Work (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1987), p. 111
Jean-Pierre Montier, Henri Cartier-Bresson and the Artless Art (Boston, 1996), dust jacket and p. 57
Peter Fetterman, ed., Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Master Set (Santa Monica: Peter Fetterman Gallery, 2004), pl. 131
Ann Thomas, Modernist Photographs from the National Gallery of Canada (Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 2007), p. 63
Peter Galassi, ed., Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Modern Century (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2010), p. 94
Clément Chéroux, Henri Cartier-Bresson , (Paris: Centre Pompidou, 2014), p. 77
Matthieu Humery et al ., Henri Cartier-Bresson: Le Grand Jeu (Paris: Bibliothèque nationale de France and Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson, 2020), pp. 82, 132, 260, and 262
Henri Cartier-Bresson
1908 - 2004
Madrid, Spain
gelatin silver print, signed in ink in the margin, framed
image: 9½ by 15 in. (24.1 by 38.1 cm.)
frame: 16½ by 20⅛ in. (41.9 by 51.1 cm.)
Executed in 1933, printed later.
