Feb 15, 2024 - Sale 2659

Sale 2659 - Lot 162

Price Realized: $ 5,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 5,000 - $ 7,500
HENRI CARTIER-BRESSON (1908-2004)
Woman with American Flag (Independence Day, Cape Cod, MA). Silver print, the image measuring 14⅜x9⅝ inches (36.5x24.4 cm.), the sheet 15¾x12 inches (40x30.5 cm.), with Cartier-Bresson's signature in ink and his copyright blind stamp on recto. July 4th, 1947; printed 1990s

"This woman explained to me that the flagpole over her door was broken but 'on such a day as this, one keeps one's flag on one's heart.' I felt in her a touch of the strength and robustness of the early American pioneers." -Henri Cartier-Bresson