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Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908-2004)
Sale of Gold in the Last Days of the Kuomintang, Shanghai, China, 1949
gelatin silver print, printed later
signed in ink and embossed photographer's copyright credit (margin)
image 9½ x 14¼ in. (24.2 x 36.3 cm.)
sheet 12 x 16 in. (30.5 x 40.7 cm.)

Literature:
Henri-Cartier Bresson, The World of Henri Cartier-Bresson, The Viking Press, Inc., New York, 1968, pl. 190.
Yves Bonnefoy, Henri Cartier-Bresson:Photographer, New York Graphic Society/Little, Brown and Company, New York, 1986, pl. 69.
Jean–Pierre Montier, Henri Cartier-Bresson and the Artless Art, Bulfinch/Little, Brown and Company, Boston, New York, London, 1999, pl. 172, p. 174.

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