"L'Equipe": The newspaper's photo service is auctioning off 100 years of outstanding Olympic Games photos

After a first sale last year which totaled more than 300,000 euros, the photo service of the newspaper

is auctioning 190 outstanding photos of the Olympic Games, captured during the past century.

Since last year, the newspaper has undertaken to enhance its immense photo archive collection, with more than 12 million photos, by offering photos, some of them unpublished, for sale.

Among the images, exhibited on October 27 and 28, sports fans will find the swimmer Johnny Weissmuller at the Paris Games in 1924, the lifted point of Lee Evans in Mexico City in 1968, the performances of Jean-Claude Killy at the Winter Games of Grenoble in 1968, the records of the riders Carl Lewis and Usain Bolt or the exploits of the Blues in Tokyo in 2021. The sale will take place at the Hotel Drouot, in Paris, this Friday, October 29 at 2 pm, or online.

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• On October 29, the Boisgirard-Antonini auction house will be auctioning a second sale of photographs from the

  L'Equipe

  photo collection

  .

• This sale is dedicated to the theme of the Olympic Games.

  Covering a century of sport, 190 photographs and ten contact sheets were selected for auction.

• This selection comes from

  L'Equipe's

  photo collection

  , which contains more than a century of images, making it one of the largest in the world with 12 million photos.

• Photos that have marked the history of sport but also sometimes the history of the world, as here, with this famous image of the point raised in support of the Black Panthers movement of Lee Evans in Mexico City in 1968. This photo is estimated between 800 and 1,200 euros.

• The sale is preceded by two days of exhibition at the Hotel Drouot, on October 27 and 28, 2021.

• Sports enthusiasts will be able to bid on October 29 at the Hotel Drouot or online at drouot.com.

• Since last year, the newspaper 

  L'Equipe

  has undertaken to enhance its immense photo archive collection.

• This edition entitled "A Century of Olympic Games by the

  L'Equipe

  photo collection

   " is also a way of highlighting the work of the service dedicated to still images, from photographers to iconographers.

• All the prizes are in a single print signed and stamped by

  L'Equipe

  in several print formats.

• “Last year's sale made sports photojournalism an artistic discipline by entering the photography market.

  I am happy that we are organizing this second edition, which launches, in our own way, the countdown which will take us to the Paris Olympic Games in 2024 ”, declared the auctioneer of the sale, Pierre-Dominique Antonini.

• The first sale last year totaled over 300,000 euros.

• "With this auction editorialized around a century of Olympic Games, there is a new opportunity to acquire unique treasures from the extraordinary photo collection of

  L'Equipe 

  ", explains François Gille, editor-in-chief of the photo edition.

• “From the photo of the French delegation sporting the Gallic rooster for the first time in Antwerp, during the opening ceremony of the 1920 Games, like a stadium in Tokyo lit in blue-white-red, in Last August, when handing over the baton to Paris 2024, it is a souvenir album that will be exhibited and then put on sale, ”he adds in the same press release.

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