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HENRI
CARTIER-BRESSON
(1908–2004)
Itinerant dealer, Beijing,
China 1949
Gelatin silver print, printed
in the 1960s
17 × 25,4 cm (6.7 × 10 in)
Photographer’s agency stamp and
handwritten numerical notations in
pencil on the reverse
* € 2.000 / € 4.000–5.000

The image shows an itinerant dealer
selling Chinese cigarettes with
peanuts, imitating foreign trademarks
more or less successfully. In the shop
window the portraits (on the left) of
marshal Tchang Kai-Chek and of Sun
Yat-Sen (to the right) with one of his
final phrase: »The revolution is not
over, my comrades must continue it.«

78
HENRI
CARTIER-BRESSON
(1908–2004)
Procession of an old
fashion wedding, Beijing
1948
Gelatin silver print, printed in the
1960s
16,5 × 24,9 cm (6.5 × 9.8 in)
Photographer’s agency stamp and
handwritten numerical notations
in pencil on the reverse
* € 1.600 / € 2.500–3.000

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