Early black and white work

Zissou in his Tire Boat

Zissou in his Tire Boat

Medium: Gelatin silver photograph
Date: 1911, printed later (1970's)
Size: 13 1/4 x 10 1/4"

Signed with the "sunny" emoji that was the artist's full 'signature'

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Renee Perle a la Piscine de la Chambre d’ Amour, Biarritz (N/A)

Renee Perle a la Piscine de la Chambre d’ Amour, Biarritz (N/A)

Medium: Gelatin silver photograph
Date: 1930, printed later (1970-1980)
Size: 30x40cm, 11 4/5 x 15 7/10"

Signed with the artist's "sunny" signature.
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Papa, Voyage en Auto

Papa, Voyage en Auto

Medium: Gelatin silver photograph
Date: 1913 printed later
Size: 10x10 1/2"

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Renée Perle à la Piscine de la Chambre d’Amour, Biarritz

Renée Perle à la Piscine de la Chambre d’Amour, Biarritz

Medium: Gelatin silver photograph
Date: 1930 printed later
Size: 8 1/4x 13 1/2"

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Bois de Boulogne, Paris

Bois de Boulogne, Paris

Medium: Gelatin silver photograph
Date: 1910 printed later, 1970's
Size: 14 x 10 1/2"
Signed with Lartigue's "sunny" signature.

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Zissou in his Tire Boat, Rouzat, France

Zissou in his Tire Boat, Rouzat, France

Medium: Gelatin silver photograph
Date: 1911, printed later (1970's)
Size: 13 1/4 x 10 1/4"
Signed with the artist's "sunny" signature.

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Grand Prix of the A.C.F., the great racing driver, Nazzaro, signals Wagner to accelerate, June 26, 1912

Grand Prix of the A.C.F., the great racing driver, Nazzaro, signals Wagner to accelerate, June 26, 1912

Medium: Gelatin silver photograph
Date: 1930, printed later (1970-1980)
Size: 9 1/2 x 10 1/2"
Signed with the artist's "sunny" signature.

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BIOGRAPHY

Jacques-Henri Lartigue
Cousin Bichonnade, 40 rue Cortambert, Paris, c.1905

Jacques-Henri Lartigue (1894-1986) was a French photographer and painter noted for the spontaneous, joyful photographs he took beginning in his boyhood and continuing throughout his life. Lartigue’s boyhood photographs were almost always candid images taken of his family and friends.. Lartigue studied painting at the Académie Julian in Paris from 1915 to 1916 and would always consider himself a painter first and foremost. It was nevertheless as a photographer that he would establish his reputation. In the 1910s and 1920s Lartigue enthusiastically photographed such subjects as automobile races, fashionable ladies at the seashore and the park, and kite flying. These photographs, with their informal approach to everyday subjects, reveal his free spirit and love of life, rather than a concern for photographic technique and craft, and often capture a sense of movement. He generally worked in black and white, but during this period he also experimented with the recently developed Autochrome color process, which satisfied his painterly interests. In the 1930s and ’40s he continued to capture images of middle-class leisure that, like his earlier images, display a charm and joy that is detached from the traumas of world war.
Lartigue was discovered in the early 1960s and shown at a Museum of Modern Art exhibit in New York City in 1963. His photographs were acclaimed in part because of their departure from the formal, posed portraits that had been typical of early photography and also because of their ingenuous charm.
Lartigue was made a chevalier of the Legion of Honour in 1975. A collection of his work, Diary of a Century, was published in 1970 (reprinted 1978). Later collections of Lartigue’s work include Les Femmes aux cigarettes (1980; Women Holding Cigarettes) and Les Autochromes de J.-H. Lartigue, 1912–1927 (1980; The Autochromes of J.H. Lartigue, 1912–1927).
He continued to photograph into his 90s, and he extended his settings to include England and the United States during this later period.