HENRI CARTIER-BRESSON (1908-2004)

Games in a Refugee Camp, India, 1947

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HENRI CARTIER-BRESSON (1908-2004)
Games in a Refugee Camp, India, 1947
gelatin silver print, printed 1967
signed and inscribed 'merci Voja' in ink (in the margin)
image: 12 x 17¾in. (30.4 x 45.2cm.)
sheet: 16 x 20in. (40.5 x 50.8cm.)

Provenance

From the artist;
to Voja Mitrovic, master printer for Cartier-Bresson;
to Peter Turnley

Literature

Cartier-Bresson, The Decisive Moment, Simon and Schuster, 1952, pl. 88; Henri Cartier-Bresson: Photographer, Little, Brown and Co., 1979, pl. 83; Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Man, the Image and the World, Thames & Hudson, 2003, pl. 385, p. 263; Galassi, Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Modern Century, The Museum of Modern Art, 2010, p. 257

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Lot Essay

'Punjab, India, 1947. There is an idleness and despair where people are gathered without homes. At Kurukshetva camp, where there were 300,000 people, they were given simple gymnastics to distract them, to work their energies.' (The Decisive Moment)

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