Evacuation of Beijing, China, 1948

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Medium

gelatin silver print

Dimensions

image: 24.1 × 16 cm (9 1/2 × 6 5/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Gary Davis

Accession Number

2012.118.14

Artists / Makers

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

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Inscription

on verso, stamped, upper left in black ink with blue pencil underlining: PEIPING ESSAY 48; stamped, perpendicular, upper left in black ink: LIFE PHOTO / BY / Bresson [artist's name in graphite]; by unknown hand, upper center in graphite: 76 / 289 / 14; center in graphite: Evacuation of city; stamped, perpendicular, lower left in black ink: DEC 22 1948; lower center in graphite: x WARS - CHINA - REFUGEES; stamped, perpendicular, lower left in blue ink: 28316-A [letter in blue pencil]; lower center in graphite: PF 49156 (GD-TL-235) GDC-133

Provenance

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

Associated Names

Davis, Gary S.