Henri Cartier-Bresson
Athens #249

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Athens #249
Image Not Available for Athens #249
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Athens #249
Date1953
Place depictedAthens, Greece
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 14 1/8 × 9 1/2 in. (35.8 × 24.1 cm)
Sheet: 15 5/8 × 11 3/4 in. (39.7 × 29.9 cm)
Credit LineGift of Yolita Schmidt and Gerald Moorhead
Object number2018.517
Not on view

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Department
Photography
Object Type
Provenance[Helen Wright, New York]; purchased by Gerald Moorhead, Houston, July 6, 1976; given to MFAH, 2018.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Signed in black ink, recto, bottom right below image: Henri Cartier-Bresson
Inscribed in pencil, verso, bottom left: 2H 9
Signed in black ink, recto, bottom right below image: Henri Cartier-Bresson

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