Florette, Paris, January 1944

細節

JACQUES HENRI LARTIGUE
Florette, Paris, January 1944
gelatin silver print
captioned and dated '1944 Florette' by Lartigue, credited 'PHOTO J.H. LARTIGUE' and signed by Florette, numbered '5456-JHL' in another hand in pencil/ink on verso
2¾ x 2¼in. (6.7 x 5.7cm.)

來源

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

注意事項

No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 15% will be added to the buyer's premium which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis.

拍品專文

Lartigue met Florette Orméa, 27 years his junior, in Monte Carlo in 1942 and married her in Paris in 1945.

Lartigue writes in his diary:

Florette gives me her youth, her freshness, her beauty, and her love. As for myself, I sense that I am hard, harsh, and uncompromising. I find my own self extremely disagreeable. Never in my life, perhaps, have I been showered with so many proofs of love. Never, surely, have I been so egotistical. Why? Because she brings me treasures that are superfluous to me. Because I didn't want to have any more treasures (Paris, January 1942).1

1 Quoted in Jacques Henri Lartigue: l'Album d'une vie, Centre Pompidou, 2003, n.p.