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HENRI CARTIER-BRESSON (1908-2004)
Cardinal Pacelli (Later Pope Pius XII) at Montmartre, Paris.
Silver print, 9
1
/
2
x14
1
/
8
inches (24.1x35.9
cm.), with Cartier-Bresson’s signature, in ink, and his embossed copyright blind stamp, on recto.
1938; printed 1990s
[7,000/10,000]
FromThe Atelier Group, Ltd., NewYork, NewYork; to a Private Collector.
Cardinal Pacelli was named Pope Pius XII a year after this photograph was taken.The Pope was an
outspoken critic of the Nazis and secretly assisted interned Jews duringWorldWar II.