[Photographic Archive]

£6,000 · Offered by Maggs Bros Ltd

Alfredo Quaglino (1894-1972) was an Italian society photographer and journalist as well as a motor car racer. He lived for most of his life in Cagnes-sur-Mer, a town located along France’s Côte d’Azur near Nice, where he made his name as a Riviera society photographer and journalist. Quaglino’s photographic archive offers a rich pictorial history of society and artistic life along the French Rivera in the mid twentieth century, and it speaks to the privileged position that Quaglino held in such circles. Notably, Quaglino moved within the artistic groups of the French Riviera of the 1940s, 50s and 60s, and he was familiar with some of the great artists of the time, including Aimé Maeght (founder of Foundation Maeght), Jean Cocteau, Marc Chagall, Henri Matisse, Emilienne Delacoix and Pablo Picasso. Some of the most remarkable photographs in the archive show images of Picasso at home with his family – both his children as well as his grandchildren. There are also numerous photographs of Jean Cocteau at the Villa Sospino, alongside owner Francine Weisweiller as well as his famous murals. Once again showcasing Quaglino’s closeness with these artists are photos of Édouard “Doudou” Dermit, Cocteau’s adopted son, on his wedding day to Éliane Dubroca (indeed, in Quaglino’s handwritten description on the verso of the photo, he identifies Édouard by his nickname). Other pictures show Marc Chagall with Virginia Haggard, Chagall’s mistress, and their son David. In addition to the many pho

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