Lot Essay
Images include portraits of Balinese dancers.
'Interlude in Bali - The Dancing Island', 1950
Details
HENRI CARTIER-BRESSON
'Interlude in Bali - The Dancing Island', 1950
Six glossy gelatin silver prints, each approx. 6¾ x 9¾ in., inscribed and annotated in ink/pencil, titled and captioned Some chance has set Bali apart from all other islands in the South Seas. In all the world man has nowhere achieved such a peace between his powers and desires - such a harmony with nature on typescript labels and with various ink stamps including the photographer's credit stamp Henri Cartier-Bresson Magnum Photos...New York on verso. (6)
'Interlude in Bali - The Dancing Island', 1950
Six glossy gelatin silver prints, each approx. 6¾ x 9¾ in., inscribed and annotated in ink/pencil, titled and captioned Some chance has set Bali apart from all other islands in the South Seas. In all the world man has nowhere achieved such a peace between his powers and desires - such a harmony with nature on typescript labels and with various ink stamps including the photographer's credit stamp Henri Cartier-Bresson Magnum Photos...New York on verso. (6)
Provenance
Inherited by the present owner c. 1980 on the death of his grandmother.