Name: HENRI CARTIER–BRESSON (1908–2004)
Brand: Irène Joliot-Curie, Frédéric Joliot-Curie, Paris, 1945
Price: 2400.00 USD
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HENRI CARTIER–BRESSON (1908–2004)
Irène Joliot-Curie, Frédéric Joliot-Curie, Paris, 1945
gelatin silver print, printed 1968
credited, titled, dated and numbered 'checklist #144' in pencil (verso)
image/sheet: 15 1/4 x 10 1/4 in. (38.7 x 26 cm.)

Purchase and gift of the artist to the Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1968.

Henri Cartier-Bresson, The World of Henri Cartier-Bresson, The Viking Press, New York, 1968, pl. 102.
Robert Delpire, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Aperture Inc., New York, 1976, p. 43.
Yves Bonnevoy, Henri Cartier-Bresson Photographer, Little, Brown and Company, Boston, 1979, pl. 99.
Jean-Pierre Montier, Henri Cartier-Bresson and the Artless Art, Little, Brown and Company, Boston, 1996, pl. 261.
E.H. Gombrich, Tête à Tête: Portraits by Henri Cartier-Bresson, Little, Brown and Company, Boston, 1998, pl. 27.
Philippe Arbaïzar et al., Henri Cartier-Bresson: the Man, the Image, and the World, Thames and Hudson, London, 2003, pl. 227.
Martine Franck, Henri Cartier-Bresson/Scrapbook, Thames and Hudson Ltd., New York, 2006, p. 215.
Peter Galassi, Henri Cartier-Bresson The Modern Century, Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2010, p. 223.
Clément Chéroux, Henri Cartier-Bresson; Here and Now, Thames and Hudson Ltd., London, 2014, pl. 288.

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This work was printed in conjunction with the exhibition Cartier-Bresson: Recent Photographs presented by The Museum of Modern Art in 1968.