🎈RARE! Jacques Henri LARTIGUE - Cannes 1956, Old Authentic Drawing Offset Print

Description: Sale!!! Super RARE! Jacques Henri LARTIGUE - Florette, Carlton Beach, Cannes, 1956 Old Authentic Original Drawing Offset print Beautiful Famous photo! Size: 20 x 28.5 cm This is a print that the printer had archived as a reference model and laminated to a support so that it can be preserved over time. A wonderful testimony to traditional art printing which has completely disappeared today. Remarkable print, close to a photograph, bright and contrasted, with very good density. Its rendering as well as its definition with sharp details and its shine are absolutely magnificent. Print made in 1994 by a former art printer - Archival model Printer four-color printing enhanced with a glossy varnish This unpublished print was found deep in an assembly workshop in the archive lockers of a former art printing house, carefully preserved flat and protected from light in an envelope. Although it is old with its 30 years of age, it remains in a good state of conservation. Presence of traces of dirt and marks on the back due to manipulations by the printer. However, the front is intact, in perfect condition and of remarkable shine. This copy was kept by the printer to serve as references for its calibration and coloring on the machine during reprints. 1956, on vacation in the south of France, in Cannes, Jacques-Henri Lartigue, never stops taking photos of his wife, Florette like a model along the bathing cabins lined up on the Carlton beach, poses for her companion, at the turn of the fifties and sixties, the seaside frenzy was not yet triumphant, the beaches still retaining a certain tranquility. “I’ve never taken a photo for any reason other than at that moment it made me happy to do it. » Jacques-Henri Lartigue Flore Ormea, nicknamed Florette, was 21 years old when she met Jacques-Henri Lartigue in Monte-Carlo in 1942, their age difference of twenty-seven years did not leave Lartigue indifferent who immediately fell in love with him, she became his third wife, his model and his muse, until his last days, they never left each other's side, sharing discoveries, travels and encounters together. Taking advantage of improvements in photographic technique after the war, Lartigue embarked, at the age of 60, on a new experiment with color. What enchants and inspires him is a field of poppies, the light of each season in his wife's family village in Italy, a line of laundry floating joyfully in the breath of spring in his garden in Opio , a two-horse picnic with Florette in Megève, and nature, with which he lives in a sort of spontaneous and poetic osmosis. He wants to say everything and remember everything in an image taken in a few seconds. This is why at the same time, he began writing a diary which he continued throughout his life. “To better remember a day, at the bottom of the page of my diary, I wrote notes.” Women have been in his sights since the beginning, already as a teenager, he often photographed without their knowledge the elegant women of the Bois de Boulogne, the very well-dressed, very fashionable ladies, then his successive wives, he immortalized Madeleine Messager, Renée Perle, Marcelle Paolucci and Flore Orméa, his last companion. Mother, cousin, friend, flirt, wife, mistress, images of women flood Lartigue's albums, from his earliest childhood. Women naturally pose for him, he pushes the relationship between artist and model to its climax. They are almost omnipresent in albums from 1928 onwards, muses and models of his most beautiful photographs. “Feminine joy and cheerfulness are a support for me, and the warm rays of a woman's smile are as beautiful as the light of the noonday sun or as silence. » Jacques Henri Lartigue The balance of his camera, the quality of his patience allowed Lartigue to develop a personal style of incredible force, he worked and waited until he obtained the exact image, to find the right emphasis. scene of a reflection of light on the water, on a face, where everything is sunny. And the same talent is found both in nature and landscapes, as well as in his photos of family and automobiles. Throughout his career, he photographed his own life, his friends, his family, his wives, his son, creating over time numerous photographic albums which would become a unique work in the history of photography, revealing intimate moments. of the “Lartigue”. “Since I was little, I have had a kind of illness, all the things that amaze me disappear without my memory retaining them sufficiently. » Jaques-Henri Lartigue Since he was five years old, he has been thinking “Let me be able to photograph everything in color”. And it was at the age of 17 that he discovered the Lumière brothers' autochrome color process, the opportunity to realize his childhood dream. He tried his hand at color at the end of the 1910s with the autochrome process, life and color became inseparable for him, allowing him to translate the passionate joy that inhabits him and remain, in his words, what is " best able to express charm and poetry.” Between 1912 and 1927, he produced 87 autochrome stereoscopic plates, then abandoned this technique, which was too cumbersome to satisfy his passion, and did not give him the desired hues. He returned to color in the 1950s, adopting Ektachrome until the end of his life. Life and color are inseparable for him, allow him to translate the passionate joy that inhabits him and remain, in his words, what is “best capable of expressing charm and poetry”. “Make sure I can photograph everything in color” Jacques-Henri Lartigue He first started in painting, and in 1963, became famous at the age of 69 for his photography. It was John Szarkowski, then very young director of the photographic department at MoMA in New York, who noticed his practice. intimate photographic style and decided to put together an exhibition with 43 prints made during the Belle Époque. Then Life magazine devoted a portfolio to him, making him overnight one of the great names in 20th century photography. “I am in love with the light, I am in love with the sun, I am in love with the rain, I am in love with the shadow, I am in love with everything. » Jacques Henri Lartigue Jacques-Henri Lartigue (1894-1986) French photographer, born in Courbevoie. Family album, quasi-autobiographical universe, child's perspective, world of bourgeois leisure. Jacques-Henri Lartigue liked to surprise through a photo, he gave a different look to common things by playing on camera angles, snapshots, black and white. A painter by trade, he brought to photography a theoretical aesthetic that we find in his snapshots, where the rules of composition are always present. He is part of the Parisian wave of the mid-twentieth century alongside Picasso, Jean Cocteau, and Sacha Guitry. His father gave him his first camera at the age of seven, which he used instinctively. He begins to write his “diary” which he will continue throughout his life. From 1904, he photographed children's experiences and family games as well as the beginnings of aviation, new automobiles, sporting events, leisure and entertainment. The beautiful ladies of the Bois de Boulogne are also one of his favorite subjects. From 1912 to 1927 he practiced autochrome photography. In 1915, he attended the Julian Painting Academy. Painting became and remained his professional activity, he exhibited in several salons in Paris and in the south of France. Passionate about cinema, he photographed the shootings of several films by Jacques Feyder, Abel Gance, Robert Bresson, Federico Fellini. His photographs are archived by himself in albums, which bring together a choice from the 200,000 photos which are part of the donation to the French state. His turns in blue, pink and lilac tones recall his desire to move towards color which he had already expressed by using autochrome plates. His long panoramic formats for landscapes or his very tight framing for portraits are both aesthetic and modern, imbued with the look of the avant-garde visual artists of Bauhaus or Italian Futurism. The modernity of Lartigue is that he is a photographer. movements, moments and beautiful ladies, through compositions close to surrealism and very graphic settings playing on shadows and reflections. It was in 1963 that Jacques Henri Lartigue was recognized as a photographer following the exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and the publication of a major article in LIFE Magazine. In 1974 Valéry Giscard d'Estaing entrusted him with taking the official photograph of his seven-year term. In 1979, Jacques Henri Lartigue donated his entire photographic work to the French state and entrusted the Association of Friends of Jacques Henri Lartigue, known as the Jacques Henri Lartigue Donation, with the task of conserving, showcasing, and to distribute this work. His work will consist of one hundred and thirty-five large original albums in the format 52 x 36 cm as well as a journal of 14,423 pages. “It’s not the camera that takes the photo. It's the eyes, the heart, the stomach, all that. » Jacques-Henri Lartigue Sale as is, no return. 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