JACQUES-HENRI LARTIGUE

Coco à la chasse aux papillons, 1936, Antibes

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JACQUES-HENRI LARTIGUE
Coco à la chasse aux papillons, 1936, Antibes
Warm-toned matt gelatin silver print, 8.3/8 x 11 in., later inscribed Coco in pencil and with photographer's blue ink copyright stamp Reproduction reservée a M. Jacques Lartigue et a ses ayants droits on verso.

Literature

Blume, La Cote d'Azur de Jacques-Henri Lartigue, pp. 106-107 (illus.)

Lot Essay

Taken on the estate of the Jewish aristocrat Guy Weisweller.

Lartigue met Coco in 1933 in Cannes when she was working as a sales girl at an exhibition of his paintings. They were married a year later and remained so until 1941.

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