Estimate: € 5.500–7.000

Gelatin silver print, printed in 1976

24 x 36 cm

Contour lines of the figures traced in with ink on the reverse, dated (print date) on the reverse

LITERATURE Henri Cartier-Bresson in India, London 1987, cover; Henri Cartier-Bresson, The Decisive Moment, New York 1952, pl. 87; Henri Cartier-Bresson, The World of Henri Cartier-Bresson, pl. 162; Peter Galassi (ed.), Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Early Work, The Museum of Modern Art, New York 1987, p. 120; Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Image and The World, pl. 407; Henri Cartier-Bresson: Photographer, London, pl. 77; Jean-Pierre Montier (ed.), L’art sans art d’Henri Cartier-Bresson, Paris 1995, pl. 247.

Henri Cartier-Bresson first traveled to India in December 1947, taking the long journey by sea from England. Upon arriving, he encountered a newly independent nation whose people were experiencing mounting tensions due to the religiously based partition of India and Pakistan. Amidst this conflict, Cartier-Bresson captured one of his best known images, Srinagar, Kashmir, 1948, which depicts Muslim women praying on Hari Parbal Hill, with the rising sun illuminating the Himalayas. Over the course of the next 40 years, Cartier-Bresson continued to return to India, traveling there six times through 1987.

Start price: €3.000