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JACQUES HENRI LARTIGUE PHOTOGRAPHS, FORMERLY IN THE PERSONAL COLLECTION OF HIS LATE WIFE FLORETTE This and the following 12 images (lots 15-27) were taken by the amateur sportsman-photographer Jacques Henri Lartigue who at the age of 16 was already a mature photographer adept at both the technical and artistic aspects of the medium. Centred on his love of style and sport, his photographic sensibilities stemmed from three underlying sources: his father Henri, a serious amateur photographer who taught his son photography; the Belle Epoque of his formative years; and his privileged social circle in which the pursuit of elegant dynamism was a shared passion. Including six pre-WWI images taken by Lartigue between the ages of eight and 19, six between-the-wars images and one 1944 portrait of Florette, this selection reveals his trademark interests from racing cars and early aeroplanes to fashion, social humour and film-making. His first photograph, taken in 1902 with his first 13 x 18 cm. wooden camera, is a family portrait in front of his summer home at Pont-de-l'Arche (lot 25). As a teenager, Lartigue captured scenes of play as in the 1910 image of a go-cart run (lot 17) and observed the social behaviour of fashionable society as in the 1911 image of the Countess Tcherkowski on the Avenue des Acacias (lot 16). Later comes an image from the 1932 filming of Les Aventures du roi Pausole in the Cap d'Antibes showing a sea of lounging female extras (lot 22). All but two prints in the group are postcard-size or smaller. Lartigue, supported by his third wife Florette, donated his entire archive to the French state in 1979 -- an initiative then without precedent in France -- and together founded the Association des Amis de Jacques Henri Lartigue [AAJHL]. Prior to this donation, Lartigue and Florette jointly selected the photographs that they would keep, which at times involved removing prints from various albums. After the artist's death, these photographs became Florette's personal collection.

JACQUES HENRI LARTIGUE (1894-1986)

Liane de Lancy and Berthe Fontana at the drag races, Auteuil, 30 March 1911

細節

JACQUES HENRI LARTIGUE (1894-1986)
Liane de Lancy and Berthe Fontana at the drag races, Auteuil, 30 March 1911
gelatin silver print
captioned 'Liane [de]1 Lancy et Berthe Fontana', 'Auteuil' and dated by Lartigue, credited 'PHOTO JH LARTIGUE' and signed by Florette in pencil on verso
3 1/8 x 2 3/8in. (8.1 x 6.1cm.)

來源

From the artist;
by descent to his wife Florette (1921-2000);
acquired by the present owner, 1996.

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拍品專文

1 It is likely that Florette added the 'de' in Liane de Lancy's name when she later signed and credited the print.