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HENRI CARTIER-BRESSON
DECISIVE MOMENTS
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The Fine Art Society
Peter Fetterman Gallery
148 New Bond Street · London
+44 (0)20 7629 5116
For sales enquiries
please contact Rowena Morgan-Cox
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HENRI CARTIER-BRESSONDECISIVE MOMENTS
The Fine Art Society
Peter Fetterman Gallery
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Matisse’s cover design for the first edition of Cartier-Bresson’s Images à la Sauvette [The Decisive Moment], published by Verve, Paris 1952
Henri Cartier-Bresson was one of the greatestartists of the twentieth century. In a long life heturned photo journalism into an art form, andcreated many of the images by which his time is
remembered.
This exhibition, which includes many of hisfinest photographs, is a collaboration with PeterFetterman, an obsessive fan of Cartier-Bresson,and a dealer in photographs for over forty years.The prints in the show were made for Peter by thephotographer towards the end of his life, and are of
exceptional quality.One of the most successful exhibitions in The
Fine Art Society’s history was that of Herbert Pont-ing’s photographs of the Antarctic, taken on Scott’sexpedition, held in our galleries just over a centuryago. Ponting and Henri Cartier-Bresson share the
Foreword The Fine Art Society
quality of originality in their vision: havingcreated photographs of their chosen subjects,all subsequent attempts are judged against theirachievements.
Although he largely worked as a photojournal-
ist, Henri Cartier-Bresson became an accomplishedportrait photographer, but most especially one whocaptured images in everyday life which are completeand emotionally satisfying.
The photographs are free of artificial effects,spontaneous; they make icons of scenes that the
rest of the world would scarcely notice. His instinc-tive sense of design combined with his ability torecognise a subject that would never lose its powerto captivate the viewer, as his photograph of twoplump couples having a picnic on the banks of theMarne, continues to demonstrate.
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Sam Tata Portrait of Henri Cartier-Bresson 1940Gelatin silver print, signed on verso in ink · 11 x 14 in · 28 x 35.5 cm© The Estate of Sam Tata
Henri Cartier-Bresson was my photographic hero,the man who inadvertently changed my life when Ipurchased (almost by accident) a print of his image Srinagar 1948 [cat.21] almost forty years ago. This
‘decisive moment’ sent me on a new personal and
professional path which continues still today.The images you see before you are a selection
from an almost forty year journey of collecting hiswork. Call it a kind of obsession, malady, if youwill. From looking at photographs seriously forthis amount of time I instinctively know there are
good photographers, even great ones, but Henritranscended ‘greatness’ and is in a class of his own.I had the great honor of working with him closelyfor over 14 years until his passing in 2004. Manyof the images were personal requests, little ‘gems’in his body of work that he had never printed andsigned before as ‘collector prints’.
I remember sitting with him once in his apart-ment in Paris thumbing through a copy of The
People of Moscow , one of my favorite of his out-of-print books. There is an image in it of some BolshoiBallet dancers in the top of the frame with membersof the orchestra on the lower half of the frame beau-
tifully lit [cat.31].
The conversation went like this. ‘Henri, I lovethis image, I’ve never seen a print of it anywhere’I said. He replied ‘Well Peter, that is because noone has ever asked for one. It’s not important, justa snap shot.’ I responded ‘Well Henri, it may be asnap shot to you, but I think it is like a great Degas.
Will you please make me a couple of prints?’ Hereplied ‘Okay, if you insist I will oblige’.
And so it went on with many more discoveriesover the years. Collectors are only the temporarycustodians of the objects of their desire. The timehas come to share them with new friends in the cityof my birth, London. In this sense my journey has
come ‘Full Circle’, and is a testament to the powerof photography.
Foreword Peter Fetterman Gallery
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1 Behind the Gare St Lazare, Paris, France
Gelatin silver print, signed in ink with thephotographer’s blindstamp on recto20 x 16 in · 50.8 x 40.5 cm
All the photographs offered for sale are printsmade from the original negatives in the 1990s underthe direct supervision of H enri Cartier-Bresson.
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2 Hyères, The Var department, France
Gelatin silver print, signed in ink with thephotographer’s blindstamp on recto16 x 20 in · 40.5 x 50.8 cm
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3 Brussels, Belgium
Gelatin silver print, signed in ink with thephotographer’s blindstamp on recto16 x 20 in · 40.5 x 50.8 cm
4 Allée du Prado,
Marseilles, France
Gelatin silver print, signed inink with the photographer’sblindstamp on recto16 x 12 in · 40.5 x 30.5 cm
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5 Self-Portrait c.
Gelatin silver print, signed inink with the photographer’sblindstamp on recto20 x 16 in · 50.8 x 40.5 cm
6 Italy
Gelatin silver print, signedand inscribed in ink with thephotographer’s blindstamp on recto16 x 12 in · 40.5 x 30.5 cm
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7 Salerno, Italy
Gelatin silver print, signed in ink with thephotographer’s blindstamp on recto12 x 16 in · 30.5 x 40.5 cm
8 Roman Amphitheater, Valencia, Spain
Gelatin silver print, signed in ink with thephotographer’s blindstamp on recto16 x 20 in · 40.5 x 50.8 cm
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9 Madrid, Spain
Gelatin silver print, signed in ink with thephotographer’s blindstamp on recto16 x 20 in · 40.5 x 50.8 cm
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10 Alicante, Valencia Province, Spain
Gelatin silver print, signed in ink with thephotographer’s blindstamp on recto12 x 16 in · 30.5 x 40.5 cm
11 Calle Cuauhtemoctzin, Prostitutes, Mexico City, Mexico
Gelatin silver print, signed in ink with thephotographer’s blindstamp on recto12 x 16 in · 30.5 x 40.5 cm
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12 Hyde Park in the Grey Drizzle, London, England
Gelatin silver print, signed in ink with thephotographer’s blindstamp on recto12 x 16 in · 30.5 x 40.5 cm
13 Coronation of King
George VI, London
Gelatin silver print, signed inink with the photographer’sblindstamp on recto20 x 16 in · 50.8 x 40.5 cm
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14 Sunday on the Banks of the Marne, France
Gelatin silver print, signed in ink withphotographer’s blindstamp on recto16 x 20 in · 40.5 x 50.8 cm
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15 The Visit of Cardinal Pacelli, Montmartre, Paris
Gelatin silver print, signed in ink with thephotographer’s blindstamp on recto16 x 20 in · 40.5 x 50.8 cm
16 Albert Camus, Paris, France
Gelatin silver print, signed in ink with thephotographer’s blindstamp on recto16 x 20 in · 40.5 x 50.8 cm
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17 Henri Matisse, at his home villa Le Rêve, Vence, France
Gelatin silver print, signed in ink with thephotographer’s blindstamp on recto16 x 20 in · 40.5 x 50.8 cm
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18 Easter Sunday,
Harlem, New York,
USA
Gelatin silver print, signed inink with the photographer’sblindstamp on recto20 x 16 in · 50.8 x 40.5 cm
19 Natchez, Mississippi, USA
Gelatin silver print, signed in ink with the photographer’sblindstamp on recto16 x 20 in · 40.5 x 50.8 cm
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20 Truman Capote, New Orleans, USA
Gelatin silver print, signed in ink with thephotographer’s blindstamp on recto12 x 16 in · 30.5 x 40.5 cm
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21 Jaipur, Rajasthan, India
Gelatin silver print, signed in ink with thephotographer’s blindstamp on recto16 x 20 in · 40.5 x 50.8 cm
22 Muslim women on the slopes of Hari Parbal Hill, Srinagar, Kashmir
Gelatin silver print, signed in ink with thephotographer’s blindstamp on recto16 x 20 in · 40.5 x 50.8 cm
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23 Shanghai, China
Gelatin silver print, signed in ink with thephotographer’s blindstamp on recto16 x 20 in · 40.5 x 50.8 cm
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24 Rice Fields in the Minangkabau Country, Sumatra, Indonesia
Gelatin silver print, signed in ink with thephotographer’s blindstamp on recto12 x 16 in · 30.5 x 40.5 cm
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25 Square of the Vert Galant and Pont-Neuf, Ile de la Cité, Paris
Gelatin silver print, signed in ink with thephotographer’s blindstamp on recto12 x 16 in · 30.5 x 40.5 cm
26 Schoolchildren looking
from the top of Notre-Dame
cathedral at the Seine River,
Paris, France –
Gelatin silver print, signed in inkwith photographer’s blindstampon recto20 x 16 in · 50.8 x 40.5 cm
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27 Dingle Peninsula, County Kerry, Munster, Ireland
Gelatin silver print, signed in ink with thephotographer’s blindstamp on recto12 x 16 in · 30.5 x 40.5 cm
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28 Scanno, Abruzzo, Italy
Gelatin silver print, signed in ink with thephotographer’s blindstamp on recto20 x 16 in · 50.8 x 40.5 cm
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29 Town of Briançon,
Hautes-Alpes, France
Gelatin silver print, signed inink with the photographer’sblindstamp on recto16 x 12 in · 40.5 x 30.5 cm
30 Torcello in the Venetian Lagoon, Venice, Ita ly
Gelatin silver print, signed in ink with thephotographer’s blindstamp on recto12 x 16 in · 30.5 x 40.5 cm
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31 Swan Lake, Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow, USSR
Gelatin silver print, signed in ink with thephotographer’s blindstamp on recto16 x 20 in · 40.5 x 50.8 cm
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32 Stade Dynamo, Moscow, Russia
Gelatin silver print, signed in ink with thephotographer’s blindstamp on recto16 x 20 in · 40.5 x 50.8 cm
33 Canteen for workers building the Hotel Metropole, Moscow,
Russia Gelatin silver print, signed in ink with thephotographer’s blindstamp on recto12 x 16 in · 30.5 x 40.5 cm
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34 Near Juvisy-sur-Orge, Essonne, France
Gelatin silver print, signed in ink with thephotographer’s blindstamp on recto16 x 20 in · 40.5 x 50.8 cm
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35 Jeronimos Monastery,
Lisbon, Portugal
Gelatin silver print, signed in inkwith the photographer’s blindstampon recto20 x 16 in · 50.8 x 40.5 cm
36 Bougival, Yvelines,
France
Gelatin silver print, signed in inkwith the photographer’s blindstampon recto20 x 16 in · 50.8 x 40.5 cm
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37 Mass led by the
Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski and
the ordination of Catholic
priests, Warsaw, Poland
Gelatin silver print, signed in inkwith the photographer’s blindstampon recto20 x 16 in · 50.8 x 40.5 cm
38 Rome, Italy
Gelatin silver print, signed inink with the photographer’sblindstamp on recto20 x 16 in · 50.8 x 40.5 cm
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39 A Transatlantic
Arriving in the Harbour,
New York City, USA
Gelatin silver print, signed inink with the photographer’sblindstamp on recto20 x 16 in · 50.8 x 40.5 cm
40 Times Square,
New Year’s Eve, Manha ttan,
NYC, USA
Gelatin silver print, signed in inkwith the photographer’s blindstampon recto20 x 16 in · 50.8 x 40.5 cm
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41 Marilyn Monroe, during the filming of
The Misfits by John Huston, Nevada, USA
Gelatin silver print, signed in ink with thephotographer’s blindstamp on recto20 x 16 in · 50.8 x 40.5 cm
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42 The Palais Royal Gardens, Paris, France
Gelatin silver print, signed in ink with thephotographer’s blindstamp on recto20 x 16 in · 50.8 x 40.5 cm
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43 Alberto Giacometti,
Maeght Gallery, Paris,
France
Gelatin silver print, signed inink with the photographer’sblindstamp on recto20 x 16 in · 50.8 x 40.5 cm
44 Alberto Giacometti,
Rue d’Alésia, Paris,
France
Gelatin silver print, signed inink with the photographer’sblindstamp on recto16 x 12 in · 40.5 x 30.5 cm
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45 Island of Siphnos, Cyclades, Greece
Gelatin silver print, signed in ink with thephotographer’s blindstamp on recto16 x 20 in · 40.5 x 50.8 cm
46 Stud farm to the south of Budapest, Hungary
Gelatin silver print, signed in ink with thephotographer’s blindstamp on recto16 x 20 in · 40.5 x 50.8 cm
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47 A farewell service for the late actor Danjuro at the
Aoyama Funeral Hall, Tokyo, Japan
Gelatin silver print, signed in ink with thephotographer’s blindstamp on recto12 x 16 in · 30.5 x 40.5 cm
48 Sarajevo, Bosnia Herzegovina, Yugoslavia
Gelatin silver print, signed in ink with thephotographer’s blindstamp on recto16 x 20 in · 40.5 x 50.8 cm
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49 Brie, France
Gelatin silver print, signed in ink withphotographer’s blindstamp on recto12 x 16 in · 30.5 x 40.5 cm
50 Near Cereste, Alpes de Haute-Provence, France
Gelatin silver print, signed in ink with thephotographer’s blindstamp on recto16 x 20 in · 40.5 x 50.8 cm
Published for the exhibition HenriCartier Bresson:
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Published for the exhibition Henri Cartier-Bresson:Decisive Moments held at The Fine Art Society, 148 New BondStreet, London 1, 6 to 29 October 2015
Catalogue works © Henri Cartier-Bresson / Magnum PhotosCourtesy Fondation Henri Cartier-BressonCatalogue © The Fine Art Society, London, andPeter Fetterman Gallery, Santa Monica
978 1 907052 58 3
Designed and typeset by Dalrymple
Printed in Belgium by Albe De Coker
Front cover: Madrid, Spain 1933 [10]
Frontispiece: Henri Matisse, at his home villa Le Rêve,Vence, France 1944 [17]
Back cover: Shanghai, China 1949 [22]
The Fine Art Society
148 New Bond Street · London
+44 (0)20 7629 5116 · [email protected]
Peter Fetterman GalleryBergamot Station2525 Michigan Avenue · Gallery 1Santa Monica · 90404+1 310 453 6463 · [email protected] www.peterfetterman.com
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The Fine Art Society
Peter Fetterman Gallery