HENRI CARTIER-BRESSON (1908–2004) Last Days of the Kuomintang, Shanghai December 1948–January 1949
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Hammer Price
€22,800
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Estimate € 12.000 – 14.000
Gelatin silver print, printed in the 1990s 23,9 x 35,5 cm Signed by the photographer in ink in the margin, his blindstamp in the margin lower left, Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson stamp on the reverse LITERATURE Henri Cartier-Bresson, Images à la sauvette, Verve 1952, p. 109; Henri Cartier-Bresson, The Decisive Moment, Paris 1952, p. 109-110; Bonnefoy, Henri Cartier-Bresson Photographe, Delpire 1979, p.69; Montier, Henri Cartier-Bresson L'art sans art, Flammarion 1995, p.174; De qui s'agit-il ? Henri Cartier-Bresson, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Gallimard 2003, p.309; Galassi, Henri Cartier-Bresson. Un siècle moderne, The Museum of Modern Art/Hazan, 2010, p.113. PROVENANCE Christie's 2011, HCB : 100 photographies provenant de la Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson