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HENRI CARTIER–BRESSON (1908–2004)
Last Days of the Kuomintang, Peking, 1949
gelatin silver print, printed c. 1957
signed and numbered ‘3 / 50’ in ink (verso)
image/sheet: 958 x 1458 in. (24.4 x 37.1 cm.)
This work is number three from an edition of fifty.
Provenance
Gifted by the artist to Helen Mann Wright (1925-2020);
by descent to the present owner.
Literature
Yves Bonnefoy, Henri Cartier Bresson Photographer, New York Graphic Society, Boston, 1979, p. 74.
Jean-Pierre Montier, Henri Cartier-Bresson and the Artless Art, Bulfinch Press, Boston, 1996, p. 246.
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