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Tuesday 18 May 2021, 3.30 pm CET
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Lot 21
Sarah Bernhardt in ‘Tosca’ 1887
Vintage albumen print.
11.81 x 7.09 in.
Applied on carboard bearing 'Nadar' signature and his atelier address (51, Rue D'Anjou); inscribed in black pen.
"What you do not learn [...] is the moral intelligence of your subject - it is that intuition that puts you in
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Starting price: € 3.500 | Estimate : € 4.000 - 6.000
Lot 22
La Signora Lia Ruskaja in Borelli
Vintage gelatin silver print.
9.13 x 6.57 in.
Photographer's credit blind stamp lower left recto, stamped and titled on the reverse.
Starting price: € 200 | Estimate : € 300 - 400
Lot 23
Untitled 1930 circa
Vintage gelatin silver print.
9.96 x 6.89 in.
Mounted on original passe-partout (14 x 9.92 in.), bearing blind credit stamp lower right recto, and stamped on the reverse.
Starting price: € 100 | Estimate : € 150 - 250
Lot 24
Untitled (Nude) 1910
Vintage albumen print.
5.59 x 3.58 in.
Signed and dated on the reverse.
Starting price: € 150 | Estimate : € 200 - 400 | Sold for : € 175
Lot 25
Storyville portrait, New Orleans 1911-1913
Gelatin silver print.
9.84 x 7.95 in.
Printed in 1973 by Lee Friedlander, Friedlander's credit stamp on the reverse.
Starting price: € 500 | Estimate : € 600 - 800 | Sold for : € 550
Lot 26
The Yuma 1907
Photogravure.
14.96 x 7.48 in.
Mounted on passe-partout.
Starting price: € 600 | Estimate : € 800 - 1.200
Lot 27
Ritratto del Principe Oddone di Savoia 1855-1860
Vintage albumen print.
6.93 x 5.16 in.
Photographer's blind credit stamp; mounted on cardboard.
Starting price: € 100 | Estimate : € 200 - 300
Lot 28
Untitled (Family Portraits) 1935
Vintage gelatin silver print.
8.98 x 6.65 in.
All mounted on original passe-partout, within original Ghitta Carell, Rome photographic studio envelope. All signed, some on the passe-partout, some on the photograph; some dated.
Starting price: € 400 | Estimate : € 500 - 700
Lot 29
Eleonora Pietromarchi Attolico with her son 1935
Vintage gelatin silver print.
9.06 x 6.30 in.
Signed and dated lower left recto, mounted on cardboard inscribed ''alla cara Franca con amicizia Eleonora / Berlino 1936-XIV'.
Rare shot showing Countess Eleonora Pietromarchi Attolico, wife of the diplomat Bernardo
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Starting price: € 100 | Estimate : € 150 - 250
Lot 30
Maria José di Savoia, Principessa di Piemonte 1935
Vintage gelatin silver print.
8.86 x 6.61 in.
Signed lower right recto; mounted on passe-partout (14.88 x 10.83 in.) bearing an handwritten dedication by Maria José of Savoy 'Alla Contessa Francesca De Courten / Maria
Starting price: € 400 | Estimate : € 500 - 700 | Sold for : € 400