Sale 2489 - Artists & Amateurs: Photographs & Photobooks, October 18, 2018
91 c HENRI CARTIER-BRESSON (1908-2004) Hyères, France. Silver print, the image measuring 9 1 / 2 x14 inches (24.1x35.6 cm.), the sheet 12x16 inches (30.5x40.6 cm.), with Cartier-Bresson’s signature, in ink, on recto. 1932; printed 1970s [5,000/7,500] Acquired by a Private Collector in France, in the 1970s. 92 c ANDRÉ KERTÉSZ (1894-1985) Jardin du Luxembourg, Paris. Silver print, the image measuring 7 3 / 4 x9 1 / 4 inches (19.7x23.5 cm.), the sheet slightly larger, with Kertész’s signature, in pencil, and an alternate title “Paris, Chairs, the Medici Fountain” and negative date, in an unknown hand, on verso. 1925; printed 1970s [3,000/4,500] Acquired Sotheby’s, October 20, 1981, lot 167; to a Private New York Collector. Borhan, André Kertész: His Life and Work (Bulfinch), p. 133. Corkin, ed., André Kertész: A Lifetime of Perception (Harry N. Abrams), p. 235. Greenough, Gurbo, Kennel, André Kertész (Princeton University Press), pl. 39. Greenough, Snyder, et alia, On the Art of Fixing A Shadow: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Photography (National Gallery of Art/The Art Institute of Chicago), front cover and pl. 244, p. 298. 93 c ANDRÉ KERTÉSZ (1894-1985) Eiffel Tower. Silver print, the image measuring 7 3 / 4 x9 5 / 8 inches (19.7x24.4 cm.), the sheet slightly larger, with Kertész’s signature and negative date, in pencil, on verso. 1929; printed 1970s [2,500/3,500] From the Light Gallery, New York. 91
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