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HENRI CARTIER–BRESSON (1908–2004)
Tivoli, Lazio, Italy, 1933
gelatin silver print, printed early 1960s
stamped photographer's/Magnum copyright credit with 'DM 17' and 'Sauvette 17' in pencil, Museum of Modern Art Photography Department Permanent Collection stamp and titled, dated, variously numbered in pencil (verso); credited, titled and dated on affixed Museum of Modern Art label (mat, verso)
image: 14 x 9 1/2 in. (35.5 x 24 cm.)
sheet: 15 3/4 x 11 7/8 in. (39.9 x 30 cm.)
Provenance
Gifted by the photographer to the Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1964.
Literature
Henri Cartier-Bresson, The Decisive Moment, Simon & Schuster, New York, 1952, pl.17.
Yves Bonnefoy, Henri Cartier–Bresson:Photographer, New York Graphic Society/Little, Brown and Company, New York, 1986, pl. 58.
Peter Galassi, Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Early Work, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1987, p. 78.
Philippe Abraizar et al., Henri Cartier-Bresson: the Man, the Image and the World, Thames & Hudson, London, 2003, pl. 122, p. 107.
Martine Franck et al., Henri Cartier–Bresson: Scrapbook, Thames & Hudson, New York, 2006, p. 101.
Peter Galassi, Henri Cartier–Bresson: The Modern Century, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2010, p. 92.
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