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HENRI CARTIER–BRESSON (1908–2004)
On the Banks of the Marne, 1938
gelatin silver print, printed later
signed in ink (margin)
image: 914 x 1414 in. (23.4 x 36.1 cm.)
sheet: 12 x 16 in. (30.4 x 40.6 cm.)
Provenance
Stephen White Gallery of Photography Inc., Beverly Hills;
acquired from the above by the present owner, 1981.
Literature
Henri Cartier-Bresson, The Decisive Moment, Simon and Schuster, New York, 1952, pl. 3.
Yves Bonnefoy, Henri Cartier–Bresson: Photographer, New York Graphic Society/Little, Brown and Company, New York, 1986, pl. 145.
Philippe Abraizar et al., Henri Cartier-Bresson: the Man, the Image and the World, Thames & Hudson, London, 2003, pl. 69, p. 73.
Peter Galassi, Henri Cartier–Bresson: The Modern Century, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2010, p. 150.
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