Bok Choy Vendor, Beijing, China

1948

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Artist, French, 1908 - 2004

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Gary Davis

  • Dimensions

    image: 24 × 16.3 cm (9 7/16 × 6 7/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2013.145.8

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York); Gary Davis, Greenwich, CT, purchased 2002; gift to NGA, 2013.

Associated Names

Inscriptions

on verso, stamped, lower right in black ink with blue pencil underlining: PEIPING ESSAY 48; stamped, inverted, lower left in blue ink: 28316-B [letter in blue pencil]; perpendicular, lower center in graphite: 76 / 287; upper center in graphite: Street Scene; stamped, upper center in black ink: LIFE PHOTO / BY / Cartier-Bresson [artist's name in graphite]; upper right in blue pencil: x STORIES - CHINA / x CHINA - P&C; lower right in graphite: PF49175 (GD-TL-254) GDC-191

Wikidata ID

Q64155018

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