CARPENTIER GEORGES: (1894-1975)

CARPENTIER GEORGES: (1894-1975) French boxer, World Light Heavyweight Champion 1920-22. A good vintage signed and inscribed sepia 10.5 x 14 photograph of the dapper Carpentier in a smiling half-length pose. Photograph by Binder of Berlin and bearing their signature within the negative and imprint to the lower mount. Signed by Carpentier in bold fountain pen ink to the lower photographer´s mount, ´Pour Jules Glaenzer, New York - Paris - partout!..son grand ami, Georges Carpentier´, and dated 1923 in his hand. An attractive signed photograph with an interesting association. One tear to the lower right edge of the mount and a very small area of paper loss to the upper left corner, G

Jules Glaenzer (c.1884–1977) American jewellery executive and gem expert who became vice-president and chief salesman of Cartier in New York. A gifted salesman and prominent figure in New York society, Glaenzer played an important role in developing Cartier's wealthy American clientele during the early decades of the twentieth century, cultivating relationships with such figures as Edsel Ford and moving in the social circles of leading artists, musicians and businessmen. He also travelled extensively on behalf of Cartier, including pioneering journeys to the Far East in search of gemstones, objets d'art and new markets, experiences which helped stimulate the firm's celebrated interest in Asian decorative motifs. Glaenzer remained closely associated with Cartier for many years and was also renowned as a bon vivant and connoisseur.

Alexander Binder (1888–1929) Swiss photographer who established a studio in Berlin in 1913 and became one of Germany's leading portrait photographers of the 1920s. Renowned particularly for his elegant portraits of actors, film stars and other prominent personalities, Binder photographed many of the celebrated figures of Weimar-era culture, including Ernst Lubitsch, Hans Albers, Emil Jannings, Asta Nielsen and Greta Garbo. His fashionable Berlin studio, situated on the Kurfürstendamm during the 1920s, became one of the most prominent photographic establishments in Germany, and his portraits were widely disseminated through illustrated magazines and popular photographic postcards