Art Moderne et Contemporain Day Auction

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Henri Matisse, Vence, France

Lot Closed

April 24, 03:39 PM GMT

Estimate

5,000 - 7,000 EUR

Lot Details

Description

Henri Cartier-Bresson

1908 - 2004

Henri Matisse, Vence, France

inscribed pour Avigdor et Anne / avec toute mon affection and signed Henri (in the margin)

gelatin silver print

image: 24,2 x 35,9 cm ; 9½ x 14⅛ in.

Executed 1944, printed later.

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Henri Cartier-Bresson

1908 - 2004

Henri Matisse, Vence, France

inscrit pour Avigdor et Anne / avec toute mon affection et signé Henri (dans la marge)

tirage argentique postérieur

image: 24,2 x 35,9 cm ; 9½ x 14⅛ in.

Executé en 1944.

Acquired as a gift from the artist by Avigdor Arikha

Thence by descent to the present owner

'Matisse in a Masterpiece,' LIFE, vol. 48, no. 3, 25 January 1960, pp. 8-9

Robert Delpire, ed., Henri Cartier-Bresson: Photographer (Boston, 1979), pl. 126

Jean-Pierre Montier, Henri Cartier-Bresson and the Artless Art (Boston, 1996), p. 279

E. H. Gombrich, Tête-à-Tête: Portraits by Henri Cartier-Bresson (London, 1998), pl. 23

Peter Galassi, ed., Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Modern Century (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2010), p. 226

Clément Chéroux, Henri Cartier-Bresson, (Paris: Centre Pompidou, 2014), p. 267

Matthieu Humery et al., Henri Cartier-Bresson: Le Grand Jeu (Paris: Bibliothèque nationale de France and Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson, 2020), pp. 84 and 293