2nd Oct, 2020 17:00

OstLicht Photo Auction Autumn 2020

 
  Lot 71
 

HENRI CARTIER-BRESSON (1908–2004)
Calle Cuauhtemoctzin, Mexico City 1934

Unsold

Lot details

Estimate: € 20.000-24.000

Gelatin silver print, printed c. 1950

17,3 x 25 cm

Photographer's agency stamp and several cropping remarks on the reverse, titled in an unidentified hand (maybe the photographer) in pencil on the reverse, original cropping marks in white ink on the recto

LITERATURE Peter Galassi (ed.), Henri Cartier-Bresson. The Early Work (Museum of Modern Art), New York 1987, p. 130; Henri Cartier-Bresson: Photographer, London 1980, p. 123; Philippe Arbaïzar et al., Henri Cartier-Bresson: the Man, the Image, and the World, London 2003, pl. 126; Martine Franck (ed), Henri Cartier-Bresson. Scrapbook, New York 2006, p. 158; Peter Galassi (ed.), Henri Cartier-Bresson. The Modern Century (Museum of Modern Art), New York 2010, p. 98; Clément Chéroux (ed.), Henri Cartier-Bresson. Here and Now, London 2014, pl. 89; Henri Cartier-Bresson. Seine Kunst - Sein Leben, Munich 1997, p. 23.

Start price: €12.000