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HENRI CARTIER–BRESSON (1908–2004)
Madrid, 1933
gelatin silver print, flush-mounted on board, printed 1968
credited, titled, dated and numbered 'checklist #142' in pencil (flush mount, verso)
image/sheet/flush mount: 23 1/4 x 35 1/2 in. (59 x 90 cm.)
Provenance
Purchase and gift of the artist to The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1968.
Literature
Henri Cartier-Bresson, The Decisive Moment, Simon & Schuster, New York, 1952, pl. 14, n.p.
Henri Cartier-Bresson, The World of Henri Cartier-Bresson, Viking Press, New York, 1968, pl. 20, n.p.
Exhibition catalogue, The Art of Photography 18391989, The Royal Academy of the Arts, London, 1989, pl. 276.
Philippe Abraizar et al., Henri Cartier-Bresson: the Man, the Image and the World, Thames & Hudson, London, 2003, pl. 107, pp. 96-97.
Martine Franck et al., Henri Cartier–Bresson: Scrapbook, Thames & Hudson, New York, 2006, cat. no. 52, p. 111.
Peter Galassi, Henri Cartier–Bresson: The Modern Century, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2010, p. 94.
Exhibited
New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Cartier-Bresson: Recent Photographs, June, 25–September 2, 1968, no. 142.
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