Lot Essay
The owner of this lot worked at Magnum until 1959 and acquired this print at that time.
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Picnic on the Banks of the Marne, 1938
Details
HENRI CARTIER-BRESSON (1908-2004)
Picnic on the Banks of the Marne, 1938
gelatin silver print, printed before 1959
number '11/50' in ink (on the verso)
9 5/8 x 14½in. (24.5 x 36.8cm.)
Picnic on the Banks of the Marne, 1938
gelatin silver print, printed before 1959
number '11/50' in ink (on the verso)
9 5/8 x 14½in. (24.5 x 36.8cm.)
Provenance
From the artist;
to the present owner, 1959
to the present owner, 1959
Literature
Cartier-Bresson, The Decisive Moment, Simon and Schuster, 1952, pl. 3; Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Man, the Image and the World, Little, Brown and Co., 2003, pp. 72-72, pl. 69; Henri Cartier-Bresson: Scrapbook, Steidl, 2006, p. 197
Sale Room Notice
Please note that the print was acquired directly from the artist in 1959.