JACQUES-HENRI LARTIGUE

L'envol de ma cousine Bichonade, (40, Rue Cortambert), Paris, 1905

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JACQUES-HENRI LARTIGUE
L'envol de ma cousine Bichonade, (40, Rue Cortambert), Paris, 1905
Gelatin silver contact print, 2.1/8 x 26 in., red crayon and blue ink cropping lines on recto, initialled in pencil, dated and annotated later in ink on verso.

Literature

Lartigue, Jacques-Henri Lartigue la Traversée du Siècle, p. 33 (illus.); Poirot-Delpech et al., Jacques-Henri Lartigue le Choix du Bonheur, p. 187 (illus.); Lartigue, Diary of a Century, pp. 15 and 16 (illus.); Favrod, Jacques-Henri Lartigue Souvenirs de mon Bonheur, p. 87 (illus.); Lartigue and Metral, Mon Livre de Photographie, p. 22 (illus.); Borhan and d'Astier, Les Envols de Jacques Lartigue, p. 35 (illus.); Cech, Jacques-Henri lartigue Boy with a Camera, p. 28 (illus.); Favrod, Jacques-Henri Lartigue Album, p. 17 (illus.); Pizzi et al., Jacques-Henri Lartigue, p.42 (illus.); Coe, Jacques-Henri Lartigue, p. 53 (illus.); l'Association des Amis de Jacques-Henri Lartigue, Bonjour Monsieur Lartigue, p. 15 (illus.); and Caujolle, Photo - Les Grands Maitres de la Photo - Lartigue, p. 9 (illus.).

Lot Essay

Richard Avedon refers to this well-known image in his afterword in Lartigue, Diary of a Century "And the events he photographs...so many of them are the result of his own invention. He creates...And that's the secret. Bichonade didn't just jump down the stairs like that on her way to...the Métro. It was Lartigue who made her do that. And he was ten years old at the time...And his suggestions are rarely direct. They're oblique. They come from impulses, not ideas. I'm sure he didn't say, "Bichonade, jump down the steps." I'm sure he leaped down the steps himself and she followed him but by the time she did, he was there with his camera."

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