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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 (margin)
image: 9 1/2 x 14 1/4 in. (24.1 x 35.5 cm.)
sheet: 12 x 16 in. (30.4 x 40.6 cm.)
Provenance
Swann Galleries, New York, December 9, 1999, lot 54;
acquired from the above by the present owner.
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 CartierBresson and the Artless Art, Bulfinch/Little, Brown and Company, Boston, New York, London, 1999, pl. 172, p. 174.
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