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
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.)
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
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