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HENRI CARTIER–BRESSON (1908–2004)
Behind the Gare St. Lazare, Paris 1932
gelatin silver print, printed later
signed in ink (margin)
image: 14 x 9 1/2 in. (35.5 x 24.1 cm.)
sheet: 15 5/8 x 11 5/8 in. (39.6 x 29.5 cm.)
Provenance
Helen Wright, The Atelier Group, New York;
acquired from the above by the present owner, 1990.
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.
Jean–Pierre Montier, Henri Cartier–Bresson 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.
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