Feb 25, 2016 - Sale 2406

Sale 2406 - Lot 90

Unsold
Estimate: $ 7,000 - $ 10,000
HENRI CARTIER-BRESSON (1908-2004)
Cardinal Pacelli (Later Pope Pius XII) at Montmartre, Paris. Silver print, 9 1/2x14 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
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Additional Details

From The Atelier Group, Ltd., New York, New York; 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 during World War II.