GEORGES CARPENTIER, boxing champion and actor, 1920s - Lot 228

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GEORGES CARPENTIER, boxing champion and actor, 1920s - Lot 228
GEORGES CARPENTIER, boxing champion and actor, 1920s 2 photos, silver prints on vintage cartoline paper Annotated on backs Dimensions: 14.8 x 10 cm each Note: Georges Carpentier (1894-1975), a French boxer nicknamed "the Iron Orchid", was one of the great figures of international boxing in the 1910s and 1920s. World light-heavyweight champion in 1920, he acquired immense popularity, particularly after his historic fight against Jack Dempsey in Jersey City in 1921, one of the first major sporting events to receive worldwide media coverage. After his sporting career, Carpentier turned to film and show business, appearing in several films and stage productions. These photographs, dating from the 1920s, illustrate the press iconography devoted to this champion who became a public figure, both in sports and in the media, between the wars.
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