Henri Cartier Bresson art links 

Original works by Henri Cartier-Bresson available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
 
 

Art Institute of Chicago

Henri Cartier-Bresson at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City

Metropolitan Museum of Art Timetable of Art History

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
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Museum of Modern Art, New York City
Many works online

National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Ackland Art Museum at the University of North Carolina
Banks of the Seine

Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts

Bibliotheque Nationale de France (in French)  
Online exhibition: "Henri Cartier-Bresson: De qui s'agit-il?"

Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio

Folkwang Museum, Essen, Germany (in German)  

Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art at the University of Oklahoma
China, ca.1960

Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts

Henri Cartier-Bresson in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Database

Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson
William Faulkner

Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College, Chicago
Note the link at the bottom of the page to all works in their collection by Henri Cartier-Bresson

Henri Cartier-Bresson at the National Portrait Gallery, Washington D.C.
Tete a Tete: Portraits by Henri Cartier-Bresson

New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe

Palazzo Ducale, Genoa, Italy (in Italian)  
Information about a 2009-2010 exhibition: Henri Cartier-Bresson. Russia

Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey

Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago

Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel
Hyères, France, 1932

Winnipeg Art Gallery, Manitoba

 

Christie's Past Sale Archive   NEW!
(database goes as far back as 1991; images go about as far back as 1999)

Sotheby's Sold Lot Archive   NEW!
(database goes as far back as 1998; images where permitted by copyright go about as far back as 2001)

 

Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German)  
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Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson

AnalisisFotografia (in Spanish)  

Chim: A Web Biography of David Seymour

Magnum Photos

Photo Seminars Online

 

Answers.com reference works  
The "Art Encyclopedia" entry is from the Concise Grove Dictionary of Art (2002). The "Photography Encyclopedia" entry is from the The Oxford Companion to the Photograph (2005).

Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Henri Cartier-Bresson  
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Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)  
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.

Wikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia

Art + Auction Magazine
Artist Dossier -- Henri Cartier-Bresson

eHow
"How to Recognize Art by Henri Cartier-Bresson" - brief, but has a few useful insights

PhotoQuotes

The Guardian Newspaper, UK
"Memories are made of these", 1998 article by Adrian Searle

The New York Observer
"Why Cartier-Bresson, The Peintre Manqué, Became Photographer", article by Hilton Kramer

The New Yorker
"Henri Cartier-Bresson at MOMA", 2010 review by Peter Schjeldahl

 

The Charlie Rose Interview Show (PBS)
Richard Avedon discusses Henri Cartier-Bresson

The Charlie Rose Interview Show (PBS)
A 2000 conversation with Henri Cartier-Bresson

"Look Inside" and "Search Inside" Books at Amazon Look Inside Books: Selections from the books listed below are scanned in, in high res. Text is clearly readable and art reproductions vary from so-so to excellent. Don't miss the fact that you can usually zoom in via the "View" drop-down menu, along the top row of Amazon's Online Reader.              Search Inside Books: Same as "Look Inside", except that the entire book is scanned in, and the text is fully searchable. This is an unbelievable resource, for research and especially for previewing a book when making the decision to buy. Note: Some "Search Inside" features are limited to people signed in to an account which has previously made a purchase at Amazon.   look inside Henri Cartier-Bresson: Mexican Notebooks 1934-1964 look inside Henri Cartier-Bresson and the Artless Art look inside Henri Cartier-Bresson: A Propos de Paris look inside Europeans look inside Tete a Tete look inside Henri Cartier-Bresson: City and Landscapes look inside Portfolio