May 19, 2011 - Sale 2248

Sale 2248 - Lot 41

Price Realized: $ 1,560
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
CARTIER-BRESSON, HENRI.
The Decisive Moment.

Dust jacket and boards design by Henri Matisse. Beautifully illustrated with gravure reproductions of Cartier-Bresson's photographs. Folio, pictorial boards, bumped at the head of the backstrip, front board slightly bowed; binding shaken; graphic pictorial dust jacket, chipped and splitting, soiled; caption booklet laid in. Roth 134; Parr/Badger I 208; Hasselblad 154; Auer 343. first american edition.
New York: Simon & Schuster/Editions Verve, (1952)