Retrospective of an Amateur Genius

Retrospective

Selected from Lartigue’s 130 original albums, this exhibition retraces the singular destiny of this amateur photographer who, at the age of 69, was acclaimed as a unique artist.
It features large-format prints of 136 photographs that made Lartigue famous, plus 50 facsimiles of pages from his albums (1919-1922) showing the images in their original context.

 

1905
Ma cousine Bichonnade, Paris, 1905
1971
“Jour des Drag” at Auteuil racecourse, Paris, 23 June 1911</br>
(print from glass negative, 9x12 cm)
Lartigue meets David Hockney and Cecil Beaton in London. Beaton’s costume designs for the film My Fair Lady were inspired by a Lartigue photograph taken in 1911.
1922
Page 33 verso de l’album de l’année 1922
1913
Charly, Rico et Sim, piscine de Rouzat, septembre 1913

 

TECHNICAL DESCRIPTION

186 modern prints / 186 frames
29 frames : 70,5 x 66,5 cm
29 frames : 44,5 x 82,5 cm
50 frames : 78,5 x 59,5 cm
61 frames : 78,5 x 62,5 cm
17 frames : 44,5 x 40,5 cm

Possibility of 14 sets of stereoscopic photographs mounted on aluminum, format 53 x 57 cm (require special presentation stands).

Finish: white matboards, glass, white-oak frames.
The captions (in French) are supplied in a separate list.

 

CRATE LIST

11 wooden crates
3 crates : 83 x 70 x 96 cm
3 crates : 80 x 62 x 96 cm
2 crates : 66 x 54 x 100 cm
2 crates : 87 x 54 x 87 cm
Weight 1045 Kg
Volume 5,5 m3

 

PUBLICATION

Jacques Henri Lartigue – La rétrospective d’un amateur génial
The Bunkamura Museum of Art
Asahi Shimbun, Tokyo, 1995
295 x 225 mm.- 254 pages
Out of print