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HENRI CARTIER-BRESSON (1908-2004)
Pause entre deux poses, Paris, 1989
tirage argentique
signé à l'encre et timbre sec du photographe (marge); cachet 'Lothar Schirmer Collection' (verso)
image : 24 x 35,7 cm. (91⁄2 x 14 in.)
feuille : 30 x 40 cm. (113⁄4 x 153⁄4 in.)

GELATIN SILVER PRINT; SIGNED IN INK AND BLINDSTAMPED PHOTOGRAPHER'S CREDIT (MARGIN); STAMPED 'LOTHAR SCHIRMER COLLECTION' (VERSO)
Provenance
Henri Cartier-Bresson
Acquis directement auprès de l'artiste au début des années 1990
Literature
Catalogue d’exposition, Henri Cartier-Bresson : Des européens, Musée Européen de la Photographie, Paris, 1997, pl. 231.
Henri Cartier-Bresson, Meisterwerke : Photographien, Munich, Schirmer/Mosel, 2004, pl. 119.
Henri Cartier-Bresson, Sein 20. Jahrhundert 1908-2004, Munich, Schirmer/Mosel, 2010. pl. 213.
Lothar Schirmer & Isabella Rossellini, Lothar Schirmer : Glamour Collection, Munich, Schirmer/Mosel, 2023, pl. 10, p. 45.
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