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Henri Cartier-Bresson

Chanteloup-en-Brie 1908 – 2004 Montjustin, Provence

Gestapo Informer, Dessau. 1945

Vintage. Gelatin silver print. 16,9 × 24,4 cm (20,7 × 25,3 cm) (6 ⅝ × 9 ⅝ in. (8 ⅛ × 10 in.)).
This picture shows the following artwork: Henri Cartier-Bresson. Gestapo Informer, Dessau. 1945.

Estimate:

EUR 20,000

 

- 25,000

USD 23,300

 

- 29,100

Sold for:

22,500 EUR (incl. premium)

Autumn 2021

The Art of Photography, Wednesday, 01.12.2021

Information

Vintage. Gelatin silver print. 16,9 × 24,4 cm (20,7 × 25,3 cm) (6 ⅝ × 9 ⅝ in. (8 ⅛ × 10 in.)). In the sheet margin numerical notations and markings with black wax crayon. On the reverse photographer's copyright stamp: „REPRODUCE ONLY ON CONDITIONS: (1) CREDIT MUST BE GIVEN TO HENRI CARTIER-BRESSON (2) PHOTOGRAPH MUST NOT BE ALTERED BY TRIMMING" as well as a strip of paper with typewritten script: „IN DESSAU, GERMANY, AMONG LIBERATED D.P. 'S GOING HOME at INFORMER OF THE GESTAPO TRIED TO SLIP AMONG THEM. SHE IS EXPOSED BY A FORCED LABOR WOMAN SHE HAD INFORMED UPON in BERLIN [...]". Exhibition stamp: „Photographs By HENRI CARTIER-BRESSON, The Museum of Modern Art, 11 West 53 St., New York". Publication stamp: „USED IN TIME", date stamp: „FEB 17 1947" and further stamp: „HOLD FOR FILE TIME". Inscribed and numbered by various hands in pencil, red and blue crayon. With light handling marks.

Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1947 to LIFE Magazine / The LIFE Picture Collection

TIME, Vol. XLIX, No. 7 (February 17), 1947, p. 50 (there caption: Gestapo Informer, 'Human faces are such a world!') / Exh. cat.: The Photographs of Henri Cartier-Bresson. New York, MoMA, 1947, p. 31 (there caption: Exposing a stool-pigeon in a displaced person camp, Dessau, Germany) / Henri Cartier-Bresson: The decisive moment. New York 1952, pl. 34 / Henri Cartier-Bresson: Meisteraufnahmen. Zurich 1964, pl. 36 / Jean-Pierre Montier (ed.): Henri Cartier-Bresson. Seine Kunst – Sein Leben. Munich 1997, p. 158, ill. 151 / Exh. cat.: ,Wer sind sie, Henri Cartier-Bresson?‘ Das Lebenswerk in 602 Bildern. Paris, Fondation Cartier-Bresson, 2003, p. 78, ill. 79 (there caption: Bei der Befreiung des Internierungslagers erkennt eine Frau eine Denunziantin der Gestapo wieder, die sie verraten hatte, Dessau) / Exh. cat.: Le Scrapbook d' Henri Cartier-Bresson. Paris, Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson, 2006, p. 228, ill. 288 / Exh. cat.: Dessau 1945 - Moderne zerstört. Mit Fotografien von Henri Cartier-Bresson. Dessau, Stiftung Bauhaus, 2014, p. 333 / Henri Cartier-Bresson: Die Photographien. Die vom Künstler selbst ausgewählten Hauptwerke aus den Jahren 1929 bis 1979 Munich 2016, p. 151

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