Bok Choy Vendor, Beijing, China

1948

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Associated Names
Henri Cartier-Bresson

Artist, French, 1908 - 2004

This image shows an exterior of a building with intricate carvings and piles of vegetables. The facade of the building is decorated with detailed carvings above the door and windows. In front of the building, there are large piles of vegetables, including radishes or similar root vegetables, and a basket. The scene suggests a marketplace or a trading hub, with an abundance of goods displayed outside the building. The photograph captures the textures of the building’s wood and carvings, contrasting the organic shapes of the vegetables with the rigid lines of the architecture.
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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 Number

    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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