Renée Perle

[dbear1000]

I find her to be so incredibly beautiful, all though I don't know much about her. I would like to know more.

 

[Luxury's Lap]

This thread is so fantastic! Incredible!! (my favorite is the second one is post #13 - where she's in what appears to be a t-shirt, chunky jewelry and fantastic hair. Siiiighh, unbelievable!)

It's very hard finding more photos of her, but I found a few....

(houkgallery.com; flickr.com; goantiques.com; ucm.es; style.com)

 

[Luxury's Lap]

And then this photo of Renee was made in a stamp in France...

(artnet.com; lartigue.org)

 

[Estella*]

beautiful! thank you luxury's lap

 

[emma peel]

fantastic!!! i've been looking for that pic of her her with the bangles and the tank top for soooo long since I saw it once. thank you thank you thank you for this great thread!

 

[Orchide]

I find her to be so incredibly beautiful, all though I don't know much about her. I would like to know more.

I would too
found this blurb on hayward.org.uk
Some of Lartigue’s most captivating images are of sensationally stylish ladies through the ages, including his three wives and his lovers. He married Madeleine Messager, (‘Bibi’), in 1919; they had two children Dani and Véronique. In 1930 Renée Perle, a Romanian-born professional model became both his companion and favourite muse for two years. He then married Marcelle ‘Coco’ Paolucci in 1934. He met his third wife, Florette Orméa in Monte Carlo in 1942.

so apparently, she was not his wife but rather his mistress.

Here is a picture I found on The Guardian's site along with a little bit about when they met:

The photograph above is one such: taken in June 1930 in the resort of Aix-les-Bains, it is instantly evocative of a carefree afternoon in the sunshine. The clear, clean water of that Savoyard lake looks particularly inviting.

Lartigue had met the Romanian-born Renée Perle, seen on the right of the photo, a year earlier.

Her exotic looks were an inspiration to the photographer, and her gorgeously shingled hair, dangerously manicured nails, and bemetalled arms are seen in many of his pictures of the period. Here, however, she is less the vamp, more the off-duty beauty.

from leicestergalleries.com:
Here is Lartigue's painting "Aquarium"

Aquarium was painted in 1929 during his marriage to Bibi Messager, in the dark years of the great economic crash. The soft hazy interior has a timeless serenity far removed from the financial crisis; the sculptural monumentality of the composition reflects the current Art Deco movement. In his photography, Lartigue played the game piege d’oeil, where he would spin around like a top and all of sudden halt and snap a photograph. The unusual viewpoint of the goldfish bowl is, perhaps, a piege d’oeil in paint; very different to the hard-edged, two dimensionality of his commercial portraits.(1)

The fishbowl re-emerges the next year, during his two-year affair with Renée Perle, a beautiful Romanian whom he had met in 1930. In a series of serene photographs, Renée gazes past the camera, her sleek ebony kiss curls and long-lashed doll’s eyes make her an icon of glamour and the first ‘real woman’ Lartigue claimed to have met. On pages of Lartigue’s personal photographic album, inscribed Novembre – Paris – (Renée – moi) he framed her elegant, jewelled hand calmly resting on the Aquarium.

 

[Orchide]

A bigger version of one from the page before:

iphotocentral.com

 

[dbear1000]

Wow Thanks Orchide! I really appriciate you looking that all up and letting us all now.

Wow would you look at that bracelet on her arm in that last picture with the hat! It's huge!

 

[JATE]

I love how amazing modern Renée looked even in the 30s. I think her style was so precise with simply cut lines adn seams. She was a trendsetter for real. Who else do you know wore sported t-shirts and bangles in the 1930s!

 

[cheiby11]

Renee Perle



(wikipedia.org)

 

[cheiby11]

hope not repost

Renee Perle

Renée Perle, in a photograph by Jacques Henri Lartigue, Paris, 1931.




With the bangles, circa 1930.



Striking a pose for Lartigue, 1930.



Perle, with her trademark nails and jewelry, 1930.



Portrait with hat, circa 1930.



Perle, 1930.



In Juan-les-Pins, 1930, shortly after Lartigue and Perle met.



Perle, 1931.



"She's Renée! And she's above all a woman," wrote Lartigue in his diary, when this 1930 photo was taken.



(style)

 

[tylw]

Have loved her for as long as I have loved Lartigue!

PHOTO CREDIT: artnet.de

Renée Perle in swimsuit, Cap D'Antibes
c. 1930-1932

 

[tylw]

PHOTO CREDIT: invaluable.com (Sotheby's London)

Renee Perle, Paris 1931

 

[tylw]

Love this blue one so much, gonna change my avatar

PHOTO CREDIT: phillisdepury.liveauctionners.com

Renee Perle, Paris 1931
Blue toned gelatin silver print
Formerly in the Collection of Renee Perle

 

[tylw]

some new, some repeats (but bigger), a nice set....

ALL PHOTOS: minotaure.centerblog.net

 

[tylw]

Last one for now...I have photos of her in my Lartigue books, if anyone is interested?

PHOTO CREDIT:_Tajan (Collection Paul Benarroche)_
Screen capture from pdf.

 

[Luxury's Lap]

OHHHHhhhhh!!! New Photos!! There's NEW photos!! Thank you very very very much, tylw!!!! I didn't think we'd ever get to see new photos (when I saw there was a new post in this thread, I thought it was just going to be just a post saying how great she is, not NEW photos!!) Whooo hooo!!!

 

[Luxury's Lap]

Last one for now...I have photos of her in my Lartigue books, if anyone is interested?

YES!! Very interested!!!

 

[dbear1000]

I love new photos! I especially like that one in the swimsuit!
Thank you so much!!!!

 

[Estella*]

yay, tylw, you're great, thank you!

and luxury's lap thanks for bringing it to my attention, you're too kind!




also, i think this is a bigger and better version of a picture i posted on the first page...

by lartigue from

http://www.kmopa.com/