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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Oct 5, 2020 | Christie's | New York | The Unseen Eye: Photographs from the W.M. Hunt Collection | 15 | $****** - ****** | Valencia, Spain |
photographs
30.5 x 40.6 cm (12 x 16 in)
gelatin silver print
signed in ink and embossed with photographer"s credit (margin); credited, titled and dated on affixed exhibition labels (frame backing board)
Helen Wright/The Atelier Group, New York;
acquired from the above by the present owner, 1981.
Arles, Recontres de la Photographie; Lausanne, Musée de l"Élysée; Amsterdam, FOAM Fotogafiemuseum, Sans Regard or No Eyes: Photographs from W.M. Hunt / Collection Dancing Bear, 2005-2007.
Ocala, Appelton Museum of Fine Arts, The Unseen Eye: Photography from the Collection of W.M. Hunt, November 7, 2010-January 2, 2011.
Rochester, George Eastman House, The Unseen Eye: Photographs from the W.M. Hunt Collection , October 1, 2011-February 19, 2012.
Lincoln Kirstein and Beaumont Newhall, The Photographs of Henri Cartier-Bresson , The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1947, p. 16.
Henri Cartier-Bresson, The Decisive Moment , Simon and Schuster, New York, 1952, pl. 12.
Peter Galassi, Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Early Work , The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1987, p. 107.
Exhibition catalogue, The Art of Photography 1839-1989 , The Royal Academy of the Arts, London, 1989, pl. 280.
Philippe Abraizar et al., Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Man, the Image and the World , Thames and Hudson, New York, 2003, pl. 102, pp. 92-93.
Martine Franck et al., Henri Cartier-Bresson: Scrapbook , Thames and Hudson, New York, 2006, cat. no. 86, p. 131.
Peter Galassi, Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Modern Century , The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2010, p. 95.
W.M. Hunt, The Unseen Eye: Photographs from the Unconscious , Aperture, New York, 2011, p. 34-35
HENRI CARTIER-BRESSON (1908-2004)
Valencia, Spain, 1933
gelatin silver print, printed 1981
signed in ink and embossed with photographer"s credit (margin); credited, titled and dated on affixed exhibition labels (frame backing board)
image: 9 1 / 4 x 13 7 / 8 in. (23.4 x 35.2 cm.)
sheet: 12 x 16 in. (30.4 x 40.6 cm.)
