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HENRI CARTIER–BRESSON (1908–2004)
The Coronation of King George VI, Trafalgar Square, London, 1937
gelatin silver print, printed c. 1957
signed and numbered ’22 / 50’ in ink (verso)
image/sheet: 1412 x 958 in. (35.8 x 24.4 cm.)
This work is number twenty-two from an edition of fifty.
Provenance
Gifted by the artist to Helen Mann Wright (1925-2020);
by descent to the present owner.
Literature
Henri Cartier-Bresson, The World of Henri Cartier-Bresson, Viking Press, New York, 1968, pl. 74.
William Manchester et. al., In Our Time: The World as Seen by Magnum Photographers, The American Federation of Arts W. W. Norton and Co., 1989, p. 21.
Henri Cartier-Bresson, Henri Cartier-Bresson: Photographer, Thames & Hudson, London, 1992, pl. 67
Jean-Pierre Montier, Henri Cartier-Bresson and the Artless Art, Bulfinch Press, Boston, 1996, pl. 158
Jean–Pierre Montier, Henri Cartier–Bresson and the Artless Art, Bulfinch/Little, Brown and Company, Boston, New York, London, 1999, pl. 158
Peter Galassi, Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Man, the Image and the World, Thames & Hudson, London, 2003, pl. 86.
Michel Frizot et al., Le scrapbook d'Henri Cartier-Bresson, Steidl, Göttingen, 2006, p. 186
Clement Cheroux, Henri Cartier-Bresson: Here and Now, Thames & Hudson, London, 2014, pl. 118.
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