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[Edith PIAF]

Photographie originale représentant Edith Piaf et Alice Rim sur un pédalo dans le port de Cassis en 1942

S.n., s.l. [Cassis] 1942, 13,5x8,5cm, une feuille.

Original photograph depicting Édith Piaf and Alice Rim on a pedalo in the port of Cassis in 1942
 

Original photograph taken by Carlo Rim depicting his wife Alice sitting on a pedalo next to Edith Piaf, the latter raising her right hand to shield her face from the sun, contemporary silver print.
Details handwritten in black felt tip by Carlo Rim on the back of the photograph: “Alice [et] Edith Piaf à Cassis 1942.” , other annotations in pencil and red pencil.


In its newspaper Le Grenier d'Arlequin 1916-1940, Carlo Rim recounts the first Édith Piaf concert he attended: “9 December 1935. La môme Piaf, at Gerny's where the smart set begin to flock to listen to her. Some small woman, humble and pitiful in her cheap black dress. The hounded air of someone who has just received a good beating. But we barely only see, in the brutal light of the spotlight, her huge white forehead, her child-like hands clenched on her chest or pressed against her thighs like a starfish. Muffled, as if choked with tears, her voice elevates, rises, tears off into an interminable cry of a mortally wounded animal, an almost inhuman voice that takes you by the throat, grabs your heart – a voice that feels misery and disturbance. And in that moment, la môme Piaf becomes the most beautiful girl in the world.”


Provenance: Carlo Rim, then his son Jean-Pierre Richard. A Provençal writer, caricaturist and filmmaker, Carlo Rim was the friend and confident of many of the greatest artists and authors of the 20th century: Antonin Artaud, Marcel Pagnol, Fernandel, Raimu, Max Jacob, Tristan Bernard, Jacques Prévert...

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