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HENRI CARTIER–BRESSON (1908–2004)
Calle Cuauhtemoctzin, Mexico City, 19341935
gelatin silver print, printed early 1960s
stamped photographer's/Magnum copyright credit with 'DM - 23' and 'sauvette 23' in pencil and credited, titled, dated, variously numbered in pencil (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, c. 1964.
Literature
Peter Galassi, Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Early Work, Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1987, p. 129.
Philippe Arbaïzar et. al., Henri Cartier-Bresson: the Man, the Image, and the World, Thames and Hudson Ltd., London, 2003, pl. 126.
Martine Franck, Henri Cartier-Bresson/Scrapbook, Thames and Hudson Ltd., New York, 2006, p. 158.
Peter Galassi, Henri Cartier-Bresson The Modern Century, Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2010, p. 98.
Clément Chéroux, Henri Cartier-Bresson; Here and Now, Thames and Hudson Ltd., London, 2014, pl. 89.
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