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HENRI CARTIER–BRESSON (1908–2004)
At the Curragh Racecourse Near Dublin, Ireland, 1955
gelatin silver print, printed c. 1957
signed and numbered ‘21 / 50’ in ink with stamped photographer’s credit (verso)
image/sheet: 958 x 1412 in. (24.4 x 36.8 cm.)
This work is number twenty-one from an edition of fifty.
Provenance
Gifted by the artist to Helen Mann Wright (1925-2020);
by descent to the present owner.
Literature
Exhibition Catalogue, Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Modern Century, Thames & Hudson, London, 2010, p. 134.
Jean-Pierre Montier, Henri Cartier-Bresson and the Artless Art, Bulfinch Press, Boston, 1996, pl. 61.
Philippe Arabaizar, Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Man, the Image & the World: a Retrospective, Thames & Hudson, London, 2003, pl. 99.
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