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HENRI CARTIER–BRESSON (1908–2004)
Behind the Gare St. Lazare, Paris, 1932
gelatin silver print, mounted on board, printed 1964
credited, titled, dated and annotated 'print from The Photographer's Eye' in pencil (mount, verso)
image/sheet: 19 5/8 x 14 1/8 in. (49.8 x 35.8 cm.)
mount: 27 1/4 x 22 in. (69.1 x 55.8 cm.)

Provenance
Gifted by the artist.
Literature
Henri Cartier-Bresson, Images à la sauvette, Verve, Paris, 1952, pl. 26.
Yves Bonnefoy, Henri Cartier-Bresson Photographer, Delpire, Paris, 1979, p. 14.
Peter Galassi, Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Early Work, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1987, p. 101.
Exhibition catalogue, The Art of Photography 18391989, The Royal Academy of the Arts, London, 1989, pl. 274.
Vera Feyder, Andre Pieyre de Mandiargues and Henri Cartier-Bresson, Paris à vue d'oeil, Seuil, Paris, 1994, pl. 33.
Jean–Pierre Montier, Henri CartierBresson and the Artless Art, Bulfinch/Little, Brown and Company, Boston, New York, London, 1999, pl. 89, p. 96.
Henri Cartier-Bresson, De qui s'agit-il?, Bibliothèque nationale de France/Gallimard, Paris, 2003 p. 59.
Michel Frizot et al., Le scrapbook d'Henri Cartier-Bresson, Steidl, Göttingen, 2006, pl. 20.
Peter Galassi, Henri Cartier-Bresson, The Modern Century, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2010, p. 81.
Exhibited
New York, The Museum of Modern Art, The Photographer's Eye, May 27–August 23, 1964, no. 147.
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