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| Image | Last Sale Date | Title | Edition No. | Last Sale | Last Sale Auction House | Last Sale Location | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 26, 2019 | PHOTOGRAPHS BY CARTIER-BRESSON (1908-2004) AND WOLF KOENIG (1927-2014) FROM THE PRODUCTION OF THE FILM "LE QUÉBEC VU PAR CARTIER-BRESSON" 1969, AND THREE BOOKS BY CARTIER-BRESSON | 150 | Waddington's | Toronto | |||
photographs
36.8 x 27.3 cm (14.5 x 10.75 in)
Black and white silver print mounted to a support
the backboard inscribed “Original photograph / By Henri Cartier-Bresson / Taken for the film “Le Quebec-De Henri Cartier-Bresson" (NFB)" in pen and ink verso; inscribed at the top edge centre: “H. CARTIER-BRESSON" and inscribed at the top right edge: “150/B" in pencil
The Estate of Wolf Koenig, Ontario;
By descent to his brother, Joseph Koenig, Toronto, ON;
The Estate of Joseph Koenig, Toronto, ON
Martin, Sandra. "For Wolf Koenig, it was about framing that decisive moment." The Globe and Mail [Toronto] 24 August, 2014, updated 12 May, 2018. Web. https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/film/for-wolf-koenig-it-was-about-framing-that-decisive-moment/article20187065/ for items mentioned in this lot.
Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908-2004) & Wolf Koenig (1927-2014), French/Canadian
PHOTOGRAPHS BY CARTIER-BRESSON (1908-2004) AND WOLF KOENIG (1927-2014) FROM THE PRODUCTION OF THE FILM "LE QUÉBEC VU PAR CARTIER-BRESSON" 1969, AND THREE BOOKS BY CARTIER-BRESSON
The lot includes:
Three Photographs:
One photograph by Cartier-Bresson:
“Portrait of two women at a reception" (From the National Film Board"s, "Le Québec vu par Cartier-Bresson"), 1969
Black and white silver print mounted to a support; the backboard inscribed “Original photograph / By Henri Cartier-Bresson / Taken for the film “Le Quebec-De Henri Cartier-Bresson" (NFB)" in pen and ink verso
Together with:
Two photographs by Wolf Koenig:
"Henri Cartier-Bresson with his Camera" (two variant views), 1969:
Two silver prints, one on Agfa paper, the top edge with staple holes, folded backwards; inscribed at the top edge centre: “H. CARTIER-BRESSON" and inscribed at the top right edge: “150/B" in pencil, further annotated: “Henri Cartier-Bresson / photographed by Wolf Koenig/ for the film on him - while C-B was in Montreal" in pen and ink verso, the other on Fujifilm paper
Accompanied by three books by Cartier-Bresson including:
1. "Photographs" by Cartier-Bresson (Grossman, New York, 1963). Presumed 1st American hardcover edition with 47 black and white photographs plus a few forward pages of text. Dust jacket;
2. "The Europeans / Photographs by Henri Cartier-Bresson" (Simon and Schuster in Collaboration with Editions Verve of Paris, 1955).
First edition in English. Cover designed and executed by Joan Miro, containing a selection of 114 photographs (many double-page) by Henri Cartier-Bresson taken from 1950-1955. Ex-Libris “Wolf Koenig", his pen and ink signature on the front free end paper; presentation copy, autographed and inscribed “To Wolf Koenig amicalement from H.C.B." to the half-title page, the typeset title “The Europeans" re-titled "some Europeans" in pen and ink by Cartier- Bresson;
3. "The Decisive Moment" (Simon & Schuster, 1953). Cover design made especially for the book by Henri Matisse (with reproduction of his signature on back cover). This edition features a selection of 126 photographs of Henri Cartier Bresson. Caption booklet laid in.
The lot also includes a hand-written letter from Cartier-Bresson to Wolf Koenig addressed to him at the National Film Board, Montreal, contained in the original mailing envelope, post-marked “Cocoa Beach, Florida: June 28"67", and with Cartier-Bresson"s hand-written name and return address ℅ Mrs. Helen Wright / New York in pen and ink to the verso of the envelope;
Also including a four-page typed essay by Koenig in which he described the tumultuous effect of encountering Mr. Cartier-Bresson"s words and pictures as a 28-year-old aspiring filmmaker desperate to embrace the possibility of moving outside the studio to film real people in their own milieux.
Various sizes 8 x 12 in - 20.3 x 30.5 cm; 9.4 x 14 in - 24 x 35.5 cm; 14.5 x 10.75 in - 36.8 x 27.3 cm
