Jacques Henri Lartigue. Life in color. From May 30 to September 23, Elysée Lausanne

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1 Jacques Henri Lartigue. Life in color From May 30 to September 23, 2018 Elysée Lausanne Save Press the kit date

While color is omnipresent in the albums he has made all his life, it has never been shown or exhibited as such during his lifetime.

2 2/6 2/14 From May 30 to September 23, 2018 Jacques Henri Lartigue. Life in color The exhibition Jacques Henri Lartigue. Life in color reveals a rarely seen side of the work of the French photographer ( ), in Switzerland. While color is omnipresent in the albums he has made all his life, it has never been shown or exhibited as such during his lifetime. After an exhibition devoted to his black and white photographs in 1986, the Musée de l Elysée therefore wished to associate itself once again with Donation Lartigue to revisit the exhibition conceived by Martine d Astier and Martine Ravache. Presented in France in 2015, this version travels then under the aegis of dichroma photography. The Lausanne version of this project incorporates unpublished works with the ambition of highlighting the link that the artist has always established between his notes, his drawings and his photographs. Driven by his curiosity and his perpetual search for innovation, Lartigue adopts color processes shortly after their commercialization. The Kodachromes (24 x 36) and the Ektachromes (6x6) followed the autochromes of its beginnings (dated 1912), which delighted 20 th century photographers, both amateurs and professionals. Colour therefore adds a new dimension to the speed and immediacy that are at the heart of Lartigue s work. His painter s eye finds in this practice, which allows him to take visual "notes" to rework afterwards, a formidable transcription of his pictorial research. His predilection goes to the subjects of his immediate environment: his life within his family, his games at the castle of Rouzat, sports of all kinds. Fascinated by nature as a whole, and particularly by flowers, the artist continually fixes its changing nuances, both on canvas and on film. This obsession is also found in the repetition of the views from his window in Opio (Alpes-Maritimes), and in the many images of Florette, his wife for forty years. Little by little, Lartigue opens himself to other subjects, applying himself to testify to the daily life of the privileged and the more popular classes. This coincided with a period of openness to the world: from 1955, Lartigue multiplied his travels, discovering new landscapes and confronting the unknown. Leaving the seaside resorts where he used to spend his holidays (Basque Country, French Riviera or Normandy), it is Italy, Venezuela, Mexico and Cuba which are photographed in turn in black and white and in colors by Jacques Henri Lartigue. Curators Donation Jacques Henri Lartigue and Lydia Dorner for the Musée de l Elysée, based on an original concept by Martine d Astier and Martine Ravache. The exhibition was organized in collaboration with with the Ministry of Culture in France. Cover: «Florette et Stéphanie, Jardin exotique, Monaco, 13 avril 1964». L île Saint-Honorat, Cannes, Florette Lartigue, Megève, 1965.

3 3/6 3/14 «January 28 [1911] : like every Saturday, I go to the Sorbonne: science lesson with Mr. Aubert. Mr. Aubert is my friend. He s a nice guy. Smart. A little dirty and very knowledgeable. He s the cook of Mr Lipmann, the famous inventor of colour photography. Mr. Aubert showed me a color picture! I got dizzy thinking about my pictures. If I could make them like this one!! (...)» Extracts from Mémoires sans mémoire, Robert Laffont, 1975, p. 93 «Will they know how to obey me, these color photos, so new that they can entrusted with all of our illusions -illusions of losing nothing, of capturing everything and keeping it all? Will they tell the whole story, these photos that I pile into my suitcase without seeing them? After they are developed, will they know how to bring back to life the fragments of what I see, look at, hear and breathe at this very moment? Deep down I know that the answer is no, but I try not to look too deeply. So we just keep walking, having fun, observing and during that time, my camera does the best it can. Havana, 1957.» Extracts from L oeil de la mémoire, , Michel Laffon-Carrère, 1986, p. 345 «The night comes, everything disappears and... the sunset starts again! It seems that colors all asleep, others suddenly wake up to replace them. In the enormous mist of heat, everything pink separates from blue. An extraordinary blue that walks in purple in the shape of a green trail. It is not a sunset, it is a colorful night, which lasts and lasts until everything disappears by going on tiptoe in the depth of the lightless.» Extracts from the unpublished journal of Jacques Henri Lartigue, 1962

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ch «Florette, Vence-Beausoleil, mai 1954» Sylvana Empain,

4 4/6 4/14 The photographs in the dossier and below are available to the press. Their use is limited to promoting the exhibition Jacques Henri Lartigue. Life in color at the Musée de l Elysée. They must not be cropped or modified and no mention must appear on the image. Please use the legends provided. Media contact Julie Maillard +41 (0) julie.maillard@vd.ch «Florette, Vence-Beausoleil, mai 1954» Sylvana Empain, Juan-les-Pins, August 1961 «Florette», Monte-Carlo Beach, 1958 «Moi, Florette, Old Tucson», Arizona, 1962 «Florette chez Picasso, villa "La Californie", Cannes, août 1955»

5 5/6 5/14 Partners The Musée de l Elysée thanks its valued partners for their support in 2018 Partenaire global Global Partner Global Partner Partenaires privilégiés Preferred Partners Premiumpartner Partenaires principaux Main Partners Hauptpartner a b Soutiens privés, mécènes et institutionnels Private Partners, Patrons and Institutional Partners Private Förderer, Mäzene und Institutionen Fournisseurs officiels Official suppliers Offizielle Lieferanten Château la Bâtie VINZEL Partenaires médias Media Partners Medienpartner

6/6 6/14 Practical information Press conference: Tuesday May 29 at 10am Opening: Tuesday May 29 at 6pm Press contact Julie Maillard +41 (0)21 316 99 27 julie.maillard@vd.

6 6/6 6/14 Practical information Press conference: Tuesday May 29 at 10am Opening: Tuesday May 29 at 6pm Press contact Julie Maillard +41 (0) Address 18, avenue de l Elysée CH Lausanne T Facebook facebook.com/elysee.lausanne Hashtags #Lartigue Hours Tu - Su, 11am - 6pm Closed on Mondays, except bank holidays Open until 8pm the last Thursday of the month The Musée de l Elysée is an institution of the Canton de Vaud Musée de l Elysée Reto Duriet

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