
Jacques-Henri Lartigue
Avenue des Acacias, Paris
A candid street photograph capturing the elegant promenading culture of early twentieth-century Paris, where fashionably dressed figures stroll along the tree-lined Avenue des Acacias. Lartigue's keen eye freezes a fleeting moment in time, conveying both the vitality and refined social rituals of Parisian bourgeois life. The gelatin silver print renders the scene with rich tonal contrast, highlighting the artist's remarkable ability to transform everyday observation into enduring photographic poetry.
- Medium
- Gelatin silver print.
- Spotted At
- Auction House · Phillips
🔨 Auction Lot
The Odyssey of Collecting: Photographs from Joy of Giving Something Foundation
October 3, 2017
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