(ARAGON Louis 1897-1982 et TRIOLET Elsa 1896-1970)... Lot n° 1

"Louis Aragon and Elsa Triolet in the garden of their Moulin de Villeneuve in Saint-Arnoult en Yvelines". Single silver print in the dimensions 18,5 x 28,5 cm (sheet 24 x 30,5 cm), on the reverse side the stamp "Photography by Pablo Volta", the number of the photo in the Pablo Volta archive, the title, the number of print 1 / 1 in these dimensions: 18,5 x 28,5 cm, signed by Matteo C. Volta, Pablo Volta's only son and rightful owner. High resolution photos 200 - 400 € - CHF 200 - 400 Pablo photographed and Ornella interviewed cultural celebrities between 1950 and 1965. Pablo Volta's archive of paper photographs and 50,000 black and white negatives was returned this year by the Centre Pompidou to his only child Matteo C. Volta, after having collected and kept them by mistake. Some photos have Pablo Volta's stamp and signature on the back, and all have the stamp "Photography by Pablo Volta" with "the reference of the work in Pablo Volta's archive, the number of 1/1 prints in these dimensions and the handwritten signature of Matteo C. Volta". Sandro Volta (1900-1986) was a writer, journalist and art collector, whose collection was sold by Maître Rheims at Drouot in 1957. He signed the preface to the "Manifesto of Dadaism" by Tristan Tzara, his best friend. He brought his son Pablo (1926-2011), a photographer at Cinecittà, and his wife Ornella (1927-2021) to Paris to photograph his artist and writer friends. Ornella was a journalist, then assistant to Federico Fellini and Luigi Comencini, and author of books on fantasy (4), Erik Satie (8) and André Breton. In 1981, she created the Erik Satie Foundation and was the regent of the Collège de Pataphysique.