Start price: € 1,600

Estimate: € 2,800–3,200

Start price: RMB 12,000

Estimate: RMB 22,000–24,000

Size: 19.9 x 30 cm

Gelatin silver print, printed in 1970s on double-weight semi-matte paper, in very good condition. Photographer's reproduction and his Magnum stamps, various handwritten notations and numbers, titled and dated by the photographer in pencil on the reverse.

Cartier-Bresson was enormously influential with his imperative of the "decisive moment" caught in uncropped, precisely balanced images, that could "fix eternity in an instant" by a hand-held camera. Such aspirations are especially required for recording a person's natural attitude, grasped in mutual confidence between author and sitter. His portraits benefit as much in the way his photographs reveal, as in what they leave unseen or virtually hide. Thus he occasionally used the motif of smokers partly fogged by fumes. In his persuasive portrait of Georges Braque (1882–1963), the Cubist artist is leaning on huge pillows, reposing, but apparently also attentive, focussing off-scene with his reading glasses pushed up the forehead.

明胶银盐照片，1970年代印制在双重重量的半哑光纸上，状况非常好。摄影师的复制和他的Magnum印章，各种手写注释和数字，摄影师在背面用铅笔题名和注明日期。卡蒂埃-布列松以其“决定性瞬间”的理念对摄影界产生了巨大的影响，这些瞬间通过手持相机捕捉到未经裁剪、精确平衡的影像，可以“瞬间定格永恒”。这种追求尤其需要在记录人物的自然姿态时，通过作者与被摄者之间的相互信任来实现。他的肖像作品不仅在揭示内容方面受益匪浅，同时也在所留下的未见或几乎隐藏的内容中受益。因此，他偶尔使用被烟雾部分遮掩的吸烟者这一主题。在他对乔治·布拉克（1882-1963）的有说服力的肖像中，这位立体派艺术家靠在巨大的枕头上，休憩着，但显然也很专注，戴着阅读眼镜，眼镜推到额头上，目光集中在画面外。