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HENRI CARTIER–BRESSON (1908–2004)
Mexico City, Mexico, 1934
gelatin silver print, printed before 1972
signed and inscribed in ink, and credited, titled, dated in pencil (verso); credited, titled, dated on affixed Museum of Modern Art label (mat, verso)
image: 8 3/4 x 11 3/4 in. (22.2 x 29.8 cm.)
sheet: 11 7/8 x 15 5/8 in. (30 x 39.7 cm.)

Provenance
Gifted by the artist, 1972.
Literature
Robert Delpire, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Aperture, New York, 1976, p. 33.
Yves Bonnevoy, Henri Cartier-Bresson Photographer, Little, Brown and Company, Boston, 1979, pl. 25.
Peter Galassi, Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Early Work, Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1987, p. 137.
Carlos Fuentes, Henri Cartier-Bresson; Mexican Notebook, Thames and Hudson, London, 1995, p. 77.
Jean-Pierre Montier, Henri Cartier-Bresson and the Artless Art, Little, Brown and Company, Boston, 1996, pl. 283.
Philippe Arbaïzar et al., Henri Cartier-Bresson: the Man, the Image, and the World, Thames and Hudson, London, 2003, pl. 123.
Martine Franck, Henri Cartier-Bresson/Scrapbook, Thames and Hudson Ltd., New York, 2006, p. 26.
Peter Galassi, Henri Cartier-Bresson The Modern Century, Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2010, p. 100.
Clément Chéroux, Henri Cartier-Bresson; Here and Now, Thames and Hudson Ltd., London, 2014, pl. 66.
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