Images à la sauvette: photographies par Henri Cartier-Bresson

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Images à la sauvette: photographies par Henri Cartier-Bresson

Artist Henri Matisse (French, 1869-1954)

Artist Henri Cartier-Bresson (French, 1908-2004)

Publisher Éditions de la revue Verve, Paris, 1952 (Tériade)

Printer Draeger Frères, Paris, photographs reproduced from prints by Pierre Gassman

Date1952

DimensionsBook: H: 14 9/16 in. (370 mm); W: 10 13/16 in. (274 mm); Depth: 7/8 in. (22 mm).
Page: H: 14 3/16 in. (360 mm); W: 10 5/8 in. (270 mm).

MediumOriginal print: pochoir print in colors of a cut paper composition by Matisse (covers). Reproductions: 126 photolithographs of photographs by Cartier-Bresson. Text: letterpress (typeface: Garamond). Paper: white wove paper.

ClassificationBooks

Credit LineGift of Molly and Walter Bareiss

Object number

1984.737

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DescriptionPrinting completed on 22 July 1952. A simultaneous American edition was published by Simon and Schuster, New York, with the title, The Decisive Moment. The cover was designed and executed by Matisse especially for this publication. Sewn gatherings (unsigned, 1--24 32 4--104 116 12--194 202 212 ±211 ) case bound into white wove paper covered boards, with a protective glassine jacket. The first and final leaves are affixed to the boards as pastedowns. A pochoir of a cut paper composition by Henri Matisse, incorporating his hand lettering, is printed in black, with green and blue, across both boards. Dealer’s note in pencil on leaf 2.