Funeral Shop, Beijing, China, 1948

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Medium

gelatin silver print

Dimensions

image: 16.5 × 24.2 cm (6 1/2 × 9 1/2 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Gary Davis

Accession Number

2012.118.37

Artists / Makers

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

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Inscription

on verso, stamped, center right in black ink with blue pencil underlining: PEIPING ESSAY 48; stamped, perpendicular, lower right in black ink: DEC 22 1948; by unknown hand, center right in graphite: Funeral shop; center in graphite: 76 / 280 / 10; stamped, perpendicular, lower left in black ink: LIFE PHOTO / BY / Bresson [artist's name in graphite]; stamped, perpendicular, upper left in blue ink: 28316-B [letter in blue pencil]; upper left in blue pencil: x BURIALS - CUSTOMS / x VEHICLES - RICKSHAWS / x CHINA - P&C; lower center in graphite: PF49107 (GD-TL-186) GDC-198

Provenance

(Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York); Gary Davis, Greenwich, CT, purchased 2002; gift to NGA, 2012.

Associated Names

Davis, Gary S.