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Italy, 1933
Details
Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908-2004)
Italy, 1933
photogravure, printed 1997
signed and numbered '42/60' in pencil (margin, recto)
image: 25.2 x 16.35 (9 7/8 x 6 ½in.)
sheet: 41.3 x 34cm. (16 ¼ x 13 5/8in.)
This work is number 42 from the edition 60.
Italy, 1933
photogravure, printed 1997
signed and numbered '42/60' in pencil (margin, recto)
image: 25.2 x 16.35 (9 7/8 x 6 ½in.)
sheet: 41.3 x 34cm. (16 ¼ x 13 5/8in.)
This work is number 42 from the edition 60.
Literature
Peter Galassi, Henry Cartier-Bresson: The Early Works The Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York Graphic Society Books/Little, Brown and Company Boston, 1987, p. 136;
Philippe Arbaïzar and Jean Clair, Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Man, the Image & the World, Thames & Hudson, 2003, pl. 157, p. 130.
Philippe Arbaïzar and Jean Clair, Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Man, the Image & the World, Thames & Hudson, 2003, pl. 157, p. 130.
Special Notice
Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent.
Further Details
When Charles Baudelaire published the first edition of Les Fleurs du Mal in 1857, the risqué subject matter provoked a scandal which led to his trial for obscenity. In 1997 Cartier-Bresson chose three poems from Les Fleurs du Mal to illustrate with his photographs as a set of photogravures. This print is from that suite. The subject is the characterful Argentinian artist Leonor Fini.
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