Marilyn Monroe
By Henri Cartier-Bresson
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Signed in ink on recto
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Henri Cartier-Bresson Art
French, 1908-2004
The late photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson spent his long and varied career traveling the world and capturing images of everyone from children to cultural icons.
Beautiful but unsentimental street photography of children was one of the surprises offered by the sweeping survey “The World of Henri Cartier-Bresson,” at Peter Fetterman Gallery, in Santa Monica, California, in 2021. Some of the images are iconic, like Cartier-Bresson’s historic 1950s photographs for Life magazine of a newly Communist China and his portraits of cultural lions like Henri Matisse, Alberto Giacometti and Samuel Beckett. But nearly half the images, Fetterman said, were printed specifically at the gallery’s request and had not been widely exhibited or published.
One of the most striking discoveries was a 1954 image of five Russian girls standing in second position at a wrought-iron-and-wood ballet barre. The coolly elegant blond girl closest to the camera looks no more than 10 or 12 years old, but her calf muscles are as defined as those of an adult track star. “Rue Mouffetard, Paris,” from 1954, captures a boy grinning from ear to ear as he walks along a city street toward the lens — and presumably toward home — carrying with chin jutted out and visible pride a wine bottle under each arm. This picture, in which all elements conspire to highlight the boy’s swagger (notice the girls noticing the boy), is an illustration of capturing “the decisive moment,” which Cartier-Bresson famously defined and which modernists took as the ultimate goal of photography, although others later were more skeptical.
Born in 1908 in Chanteloup-en-Brie, France, the oldest of five children, Cartier-Bresson studied art and literature in school, refusing to join his father’s prosperous textile business. In 1931, he traveled to Africa to hunt wild game and found that he preferred a different kind of shoot: taking pictures with a small box camera.
On his return to France, Cartier-Bresson bought a Leica with a 50mm lens — the camera he called the “extension of my eye” and used for decades. He soon began working as a photojournalist, traveling the globe to capture everyday moments as well as some of the defining political events of the 20th century, from Gandhi’s funeral in 1948 and the fall of the Kuomintang in China in 1949 to the student uprising in Paris in 1968.
Cartier-Bresson was himself caught up in conflict. A French army officer during World War II, he was detained as a prisoner of war by the Nazis, prompting rumors he’d been killed. His photography was taken seriously enough at this time that the Museum of Modern Art in New York began preparing what it believed would be a posthumous retrospective of his work. The show took place in 1947, when the photographer was abundantly alive and well, and busy cofounding the great photo agency Magnum. MoMA has been a guardian and champion of his work ever since.
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Henri Cartier-BressonL'imaginaire d'Après Nature, Offset, Modern Style, Signed, 1983, Unframed, 1983
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L'imaginaire d'Après Nature, Offset, Modern Style, Signed, 1983, Unframed
By Henri Cartier-Bresson
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage poster realized after a photograph by Henri Cartier-Bresson. Published by Opera Universitaria - Rome - 1983. Very good condition.
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1980s Modern Henri Cartier-Bresson Art
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Jacques Tati and Alain Becourt - Photograph by Henri Cartier-Bresson - 1958
By Henri Cartier-Bresson
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage b/w photograph realized by Henri Cartier-Bresson in 1958. Copyright: Magnum Photos and Agenzia Contrasto. Excellent condition.
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Gino Marotta. Naturale / Virtuale, Offset, Modern Style, Signed, 1979, Unframed
By Henri Cartier-Bresson
Located in Roma, IT
Gino Marotta. Naturale / Virtuale is an offset realized by Gino Marotta in 1979. The poster is for the exhibition "Natural/Virtual" of the artist in the famous Rondanini Gallery in ...
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Henri Cartier-BressonLes Européens Photographies - Photographs by Henri Cartier-Bresson - 1955, 1955
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Les Européens Photographies - Photographs by Henri Cartier-Bresson - 1955
By Henri Cartier-Bresson
Located in Roma, IT
Volume including a selection of 114 black and white photographs by Henri Cartier-Bresson from 1950 to 1955. Original boards illustrated after a design by Joan Mirò. First Edition. Ve...
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Original Woodblock Print by Henri Cartier Bresson from Vowels 1996
By Henri Cartier-Bresson
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Cartier-Bresson, Henri Untitled (Vowels I), 1996 Original Woodblock Print on Tosa Hanga Paper 14 3/4 x 12 1/16 in. One of three prints illustrated by Cartier-Bresson for Arthur Rim...
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Henri Cartier-BressonHenri Cartier-Bresson -- Barrio Chino, Barcelona
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Henri Cartier-Bresson -- Barrio Chino, Barcelona
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Located in BRUCE, ACT
Henri Cartier-Bresson Barrio Chino, Barcelona, 1933 This example was printed later Signed in ink lower right Edition 65/75 in lower left Image: 35.7 x 23.6 cm Sheet: 56 x 37.8 cm ...
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Aquila Degli Abruzzi, Italy
By Henri Cartier-Bresson
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Signed in ink on recto Gelatin silver print Image: 14 x 9 1/2 inches, Paper: 15 7/8 x 12 inches, Mat: 20 x 16
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Original Woodblock Print by Henri Cartier Bresson from Vowels 1996
By Henri Cartier-Bresson
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Cartier-Bresson, Henri Untitled (Vowels I), 1996 Original Woodblock Print on Tosa Hanga Paper 14 3/4 x 12 1/16 in. One of three prints illustrated by Cartier-Bresson for Arthur Rim...
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Original Woodblock Print by Henri Cartier Bresson from Vowels 1996
By Henri Cartier-Bresson
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Cartier-Bresson, Henri Untitled (Vowels I), 1996 Original Woodblock Print on Tosa Hanga Paper 14 3/4 x 12 1/16 in. One of three prints illustrated by Cartier-Bresson for Arthur Rim...
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Henri Cartier-Bresson, Rome, Italy, Black and White Print, Signed, c. 1990
By Henri Cartier-Bresson
Located in London, GB
Signed Silver gelatin print, printed circa 1990 Image 17 1/2 x 11 1/2 inches Paper 20 x 15 3/4 inches Henri Cartier-Bresson is perhaps the most significant photographer of the twent...
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Meudon
By Henri Cartier-Bresson
Located in Roma, RM
Henri Cartier Bresson (Chanteloup-en-Brie 1908 - Céreste 2004), Meudon (1964) later printed Silver gelatin print, image 24 x 36 cm, sheet 30 x 40 cm, dedication and signature at lo...
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Henri Cartier-BressonOn the Banks of the Marne, 1938
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On the Banks of the Marne
By Henri Cartier-Bresson
Located in New York, NY
Signed by the photographer
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Henri Matisse at His Home, 'le Reve', Vence, France
By Henri Cartier-Bresson
Located in London, GB
Stamped with photographer's copyright ink stamp on reverse
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Henri Cartier-BressonSiphnos, Greece, 1961
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Siphnos, Greece
By Henri Cartier-Bresson
Located in Santa Monica, CA
signed by artist in ink with artist's embossed stamp on recto
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