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HENRI CARTIER–BRESSON (1908–2004)
Leonor Fini, Italy, 1933
photogravure, printed 1997
signed and numbered '42 / 60' in pencil (margin)
image: 978 x 612 in. (25.2 x 16.4 cm.)
sheet: 1614 x 1358 in. (41.3 x 34 cm.)
This work is number forty-two from an edition of sixty.
Provenance
Photographs Selected by James Danziger, Christie's, London, May 22, 2015, lot 16;
Private Collection, New York;
acquired from the above by the present owner.
Literature
Henri Cartier-Bresson, Henri Cartier-Bresson: Photographer, New York Graphic Society, New York, 1979, pl. 148.
Peter Galassi, Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Early Work, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1987, p. 136.
Jean-Pierre Montier, Henri Cartier-Bresson and the Artless Art, Bulfinch, New York, 1996, pl. 284.
Jean Clair and Philippe Arabaizar, Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Man, The Image and The World, Thames & Hudson, London, 2006, pl. 157.
Peter Galassi, Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Modern Century, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2010, p. 101.
Clément Chéroux, Henri Cartier-Bresson: Here and Now, Thames & Hudson, London, 2014, pl. 95.
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