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Auction archive: Lot number 260

CARTIER-BRESSON, Henri Les Européens [The Europeans] Paris: ...

Estimate
£2,000 - £3,000
ca. US$3,194 - US$4,792
Price realised:
£2,500
ca. US$3,993
Auction archive: Lot number 260

CARTIER-BRESSON, Henri Les Européens [The Europeans] Paris: ...

Estimate
£2,000 - £3,000
ca. US$3,194 - US$4,792
Price realised:
£2,500
ca. US$3,993
Beschreibung:

CARTIER-BRESSON, Henri. Les Européens . [The Europeans.] Paris: Verve, 1955. 4° (360 x 270mm). 114 black and white photographs. Original boards illustrated after a design by Miró (light rubbing at the extremities and lower joint). Provenance : Henri Cartier-Bresson (presentation inscription to:) -- Albert Plécy.
CARTIER-BRESSON, Henri. Les Européens . [The Europeans.] Paris: Verve, 1955. 4° (360 x 270mm). 114 black and white photographs. Original boards illustrated after a design by Miró (light rubbing at the extremities and lower joint). Provenance : Henri Cartier-Bresson (presentation inscription to:) -- Albert Plécy. FIRST EDITION. PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY CARTIER-BRESSON TO ALBERT PLECY, noted publisher and author: 'à Albert Plécy avec mon très cordial souvenir. Henri Cartier-Bresson ' In 1955, when Cartier-Bresson published and presented this book to him, Plécy founded the Prix Nadar, which each year rewards the outstanding photobook published in France. Cartier-Bresson won the prize in 1971 with Vive La France . ' The Decisive Moment is one of the greatest of all photobooks, and Cartier-Bresson repeated its artistic success three years later with The Europeans ' ( The Photobook ). AN EXCELLENT ASSOCIATION COPY IN VERY GOOD CONDITION. Auer & Auer 356; The Photobook , vol. I, p.209; Regards à travers le livre 107.

Auction archive: Lot number 260
Auction:
Datum:
30 Nov 2010
Auction house:
Christie's
30 November 2010, London, South Kensington
Beschreibung:

CARTIER-BRESSON, Henri. Les Européens . [The Europeans.] Paris: Verve, 1955. 4° (360 x 270mm). 114 black and white photographs. Original boards illustrated after a design by Miró (light rubbing at the extremities and lower joint). Provenance : Henri Cartier-Bresson (presentation inscription to:) -- Albert Plécy.
CARTIER-BRESSON, Henri. Les Européens . [The Europeans.] Paris: Verve, 1955. 4° (360 x 270mm). 114 black and white photographs. Original boards illustrated after a design by Miró (light rubbing at the extremities and lower joint). Provenance : Henri Cartier-Bresson (presentation inscription to:) -- Albert Plécy. FIRST EDITION. PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY CARTIER-BRESSON TO ALBERT PLECY, noted publisher and author: 'à Albert Plécy avec mon très cordial souvenir. Henri Cartier-Bresson ' In 1955, when Cartier-Bresson published and presented this book to him, Plécy founded the Prix Nadar, which each year rewards the outstanding photobook published in France. Cartier-Bresson won the prize in 1971 with Vive La France . ' The Decisive Moment is one of the greatest of all photobooks, and Cartier-Bresson repeated its artistic success three years later with The Europeans ' ( The Photobook ). AN EXCELLENT ASSOCIATION COPY IN VERY GOOD CONDITION. Auer & Auer 356; The Photobook , vol. I, p.209; Regards à travers le livre 107.

Auction archive: Lot number 260
Auction:
Datum:
30 Nov 2010
Auction house:
Christie's
30 November 2010, London, South Kensington
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