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HENRI CARTIER–BRESSON (1908–2004)
Henri Matisse, Vence, France, 1944
gelatin silver print, printed later
signed in ink, embossed photographer's copyright credit (margin); credited, titled and dated on affixed gallery label (frame backing board)
image: 978 x 14 in. (25 x 35.5 cm.)
sheet: 1134 x 1534 in. (29.8 x 40 cm.)

Provenance
Irving Galleries, Palm Beach;
by descent to the present owner.
Literature
E.H. Gombrich, Tête à Tête: Portraits by Henri Cartier-Bresson, Thames & Hudson, London, 1998, pl. 23.
Jean-Pierre Montier, Henri Cartier-Bresson and the Artless Art, Little, Brown and Co., Boston, 1999, pl. 277.
Peter Galassi, Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Modern Century, Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2010, p. 226.
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