HENRI CARTIER-BRESSON (1908–2004)
Itinerant dealer, Beijing, China 1949

Estimate: € 4.000-5.000

Gelatin silver print, printed in the 1960s

17 x 25,4 cm

Photographer's agency stamp and handwritten numerical notations in pencil on the reverse Itinerant dealer, he sells Chinese cigarettes with peanuts, imitating foreign trademarks more or less successfully. In the shop window the portraits (on the left) of marshal Tchang Kai-Chek and of Sun Yat-Sen (to the right) with one of his final phrase: "The revolution is not over, my comrades must continue it."

Start price: €2.000