Name: HENRI CARTIER–BRESSON (1908–2004)
Brand: Cardinal Pacelli in Montmartre, Paris, 1937
Price: 6000.00 USD
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HENRI CARTIER–BRESSON (1908–2004)
Cardinal Pacelli in Montmartre, Paris, 1937
gelatin silver print, printed c. 1957
signed and numbered ‘23 / 50’ in ink (verso)
image/sheet: 10⁵⁄₈ x 14¹⁄₂ in. (27 x 36.8 cm.)
This work is number twenty-three from an edition of fifty.

Gifted by the artist to Helen Mann Wright (1925-2020);
by descent to the present owner.

Henri Cartier-Bresson, The Decisive Moment: Photographs by Henri Cartier-Bresson, New York and Paris, 1952, pl. 30.
Henri Cartier-Bresson, Henri Cartier Bresson: Photographer, Boston, 1979, p. 101.
Henri Cartier-Bresson, Henri Cartier-Bresson: À Propos de Paris, Boston, 1994, p. 78.
Jennifer Blessing, Speaking with Hands: Photographs from The Buhl Collection, Guggenheim Foundation, 2004, pp. 172 and 206.
Peter Galassi, Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Modern Century, The Museum of Modern Art, 2010, p. 256.

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