Soldier Practicing Tai Chi, Beijing, China
1948
Artist, French, 1908 - 2004
Printer
Henri Cartier-Bresson
Artwork overview
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Medium
gelatin silver print
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
image: 23.8 × 16.2 cm (9 3/8 × 6 3/8 in.)
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Accession Number
2012.118.2
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York); Gary Davis, Greenwich, CT, purchased 2002; gift to NGA, 2012.
Associated Names
Inscriptions
on verso, stamped, upper left in black ink with blue pencil underlining: PEIPING ESSAY 48; by unknown hand, upper center in graphite: Chinese Gymnastics; stamped, perpendicular, center left in black ink: LIFE PHOTO / BY / Bresson [artist's name in graphite]; perpendicular, center left in graphite: 76 / 272; stamped, inverted, center in black ink: LIFE PRINT / BY / GEORGE KARAS; lower center in blue pencil: x CHINA - P+C / x SPORTS - GYMNASTICS; stamped, perpendicular, lower left in black ink: DEC 22 1948; stamped, perpendicular, lower left in blue ink: 28316-D [letter in blue pencil]; lower center in graphite: GDC-118 PF49191 (GD-TL-270)
Wikidata ID
Q64154958