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HENRI CARTIER–BRESSON (1908–2004)
Alfred Stieglitz, 1946
gelatin silver print, flush–mounted on Masonite, printed before 1963
titled in ink and dated 'C/E 64' in pencil with Museum of Modern Art Photography Department Study Collection stamp (flush mount, verso)
image/sheet/flush mount: 9 3/8 x 13 7/8 in. (23.8 x 35.2 cm.)
Provenance
Gifted by the artist to the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Literature
Henri Cartier-Bresson, The World of Henri Cartier-Bresson, The Viking Press, New York, 1968, pl. 116.
Jean-Pierre Montier, Henri Cartier-Bresson and the Artless Art, Little, Brown and Company, Boston, 1996, pl. 105.
E.H. Gombrich, Tête à Tête: Portraits by Henri Cartier-Bresson, Little, Brown and Company, Boston, 1998, pl. 4.
Philippe Arbaïzar et. al., Henri Cartier-Bresson: the Man, the Image, and the World, Thames and Hudson Ltd., London, 2003, pl. 252.
Peter Galassi, Henri Cartier-Bresson The Modern Century, Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2010, p. 228.
Clément Chéroux, Henri Cartier-Bresson; Here and Now, Thames and Hudson Ltd., London, 2014, p. 216.
Exhibited
New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Circulating Exhibition: Henri Cartier-Bresson, 1963–1965.
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This print is flush-mounted to Masonite in keeping with exhibition prints from approximately the 1950s–early 1960s and was included in the Circulating Exhibition, Henri Cartier-Bresson, organized by The Museum of Modern Art. The exhibition traveled to various institutions from 1963–1965.

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