Lot Essay
Cartier-Bresson spent 1969 travelling around France for Reader's Digest and took this wonderful, spatially complex photograph at Simiane-La-Rotonde in the Alpes de Haute-Provence region, during his trip.
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Simiane-La-Rotonde, 1969
Details
HENRI CARTIER-BRESSON (1908-2004)
Simiane-La-Rotonde, 1969
gelatin silver exhibition print
inscribed 'à Vojin Mitrovic bien amicalement Henri' in ink (in the margin)
image: 13¼ x 19¾in. (33.8 x 50cm.)
sheet: 20 x 24in. (50.8 x 61cm.)
Simiane-La-Rotonde, 1969
gelatin silver exhibition print
inscribed 'à Vojin Mitrovic bien amicalement Henri' in ink (in the margin)
image: 13¼ x 19¾in. (33.8 x 50cm.)
sheet: 20 x 24in. (50.8 x 61cm.)
Provenance
From the artist;
to Voja Mitrovic, master printer for Cartier-Bresson;
to Peter Turnley
to Voja Mitrovic, master printer for Cartier-Bresson;
to Peter Turnley
Literature
Cartier-Bresson and Nourissier, Vive la France, Sélection du Reader's Digest, 1970, p. 18; Henri Cartier-Bresson: Photographer, Little, Brown and Co., 1979, pl. 142;
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