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JACQUES HENRI LARTIGUE PHOTOGRAPHS, FORMERLY IN THE PERSONAL COLLECTION OF HIS LATE WIFE FLORETTE

JACQUES HENRI LARTIGUE

Go-cart run, Rouzat, summer 1910

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JACQUES HENRI LARTIGUE
Go-cart run, Rouzat, summer 1910
gelatin silver print
dated '09' with indistinct monogram in ink on recto; dated '09' (changed to '1910' by Florette) and '1910' probably by Lartigue, credited 'PHOTO J.H. LARTIGUE', signed and dated by Florette in pencil/ink on verso
3½ x 4¾in. (8.9 x 12cm.)

Provenance

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

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Lot Essay

The sense of movement is hightened by the dust billowing in the foreground. A go-cart run was one of a number of activities which the young men of Lartigue's inner circle enjoyed during their summers in Rouzat. Their shared disposition to sports gave Lartigue abundant opportunities for capturing wonderful mid-action scenes.

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