Pier 24 Photography from the Pilara Family Foundation Sold to Benefit Charitable Organizations Day Sale

Pier 24 Photography from the Pilara Family Foundation Sold to Benefit Charitable Organizations Day Sale

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Jacques-Henri Lartigue

Renée Perle, Fingers to Lips

Auction Closed

May 2, 05:08 PM GMT

Estimate

15,000 - 25,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Jacques-Henri Lartigue

1894 - 1986

Renée Perle, Fingers to Lips


ferrotyped gelatin silver print, annotation 'Renée en 1931' in pencil on the reverse, framed, 1931

image: 7 by 4⅞ in. (17.8 by 12.4 cm.)

frame: 20 by 16 in. (50.8 by 40.6 cm.)

Gift of the photographer to Renée Perle, 1930-32

Private collection

Sotheby's, New York, 7 October 1998, Sale 7194, Lot 288​​

Christie's New York, 20th Century Photographs: The Elfering Collection, 9 October 2005, Sale 1642, Lot 31 

Jacques-Henri Lartigue, Jacques-Henri Lartigue: La Traversée du Siècle (Bordas, 1990), p. 95
San Francisco, Pier 24 Photography, About Face, Pier 24 Photography, San Francisco, CA, May 2012 – April 2013

San Francisco, Pier 24 Photography, Looking Back: Ten Years of Pier 24 Photography, July 2019 – March 2022

'She is beautiful. The small mouth with the full painted lips! The ebony black eyes!. . . Around her I see a halo. . .of magic. At the same time her charm disturbs me. I am afraid to always will.  Renée is beautiful: she is tender; she is everything I desire. I live in a dream.'

– Jacques-Henri Lartigue