20th CENTURY ART
AUCTION
Tuesday 6 November 2018
2.30 pm (CET)
Turin – Sala Bolaffi, via Cavour 17
VIEWING
From Friday 2 to Tuesday 6 November (Sunday included) from 10 am to 6 pm.
Saturday 3 from 10 am to Midnight
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Lot 76
ANONIMO
Lazy man's luck
Color lithograph, Mather&Company, printed in USA.
Condition: A-.
45.28 x 36.22 in.
Starting price: € 300 | Estimate : € 400 - 600 | Sold for : € 300
Lot 77
WILLARD FREDERIC ELMES 1900-1956
Diving for success
Color lithograph, Mather&Company, printed in USA.
Condition: A-.
45.28 x 36.22 in.
Starting price: € 350 | Estimate : € 400 - 600 | Sold for : € 425
Lot 78
FRANK BEATTY 1899-1984
Out of the running
Color lithograph, Mather&Company, printed in USA.
Condition: A-.
45.28 x 36.22 in.
Starting price: € 1.800 | Estimate : € 2.000 - 2.500 | Sold for : € 1.800
Lot 79
GUSTAVE LE GRAY 1820-1882
Tempio di Edfu
Albumen vintage print, on mountboard and signed in red ink lower recto.
12.40 x 16.34 in.
Starting price: € 4.000 | Estimate : € 6.000 - 8.000 | Sold for : € 6.000
Lot 80
GUSTAVE LE GRAY 1820-1882
Pilone del tempio di Dendérah
Albumen vintage print, on mountboard and signed in red ink lower recto.
12.28 x 16.14 in.
Starting price: € 4.000 | Estimate : € 6.000 - 8.000 | Sold for : € 38.000
Lot 81
GUSTAVE LE GRAY 1820-1882
Il tempio di Iside, File
Albumen vintage print, on mountboard and signed in red ink lower recto.
12.28 x 16.14 in.
Starting price: € 4.000 | Estimate : € 6.000 - 8.000 | Sold for : € 6.500
Lot 82
GIORGIO SOMMER 1834-1914
Napoli
Vintage albumen print, on original mountboard, photographer's credit stamp, title and reference number in lower margin recto.
8.27 x 10.04 in.
Starting price: € 250 | Estimate : € 300 - 500 | Sold for : € 250
Lot 83
GIORGIO SOMMER 1834-1914
Casa di Marco Lucrezio, Pompei
Vintage albumen print, photographer's credit stamp, title and reference number in lower margin recto.
8.27 x 10.04 in.
Starting price: € 250 | Estimate : € 300 - 500
Lot 84
RICCARDO MONCALVO 1915-2008
Il trattore, Langhe
Vintage gelatin silver print, photographer’s credit stamp on the reverse.
5.91 x 9.06 in.
Starting price: € 250 | Estimate : € 300 - 400
Lot 85
RICCARDO MONCALVO 1915-2008
Lavoro nei campi, Langhe
Vintage gelatin silver print, photographer’s credit stamp on the reverse.
6.69 x 8.66 in.
Starting price: € 250 | Estimate : € 300 - 400
Lot 86
ROBERTO BACCARINI
Wanda Osiris
Vintage gelatin silver print, photographer's photo credit on the reverse.
11.42 x 9.06 in.
A precious shot, a very rare nude that depicts 'the Wandissima', queen of the Italian theater of variety shows from the Thirties to the Fifties, just before becoming so famous
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Starting price: € 500 | Estimate : € 600 - 800
Lot 87
ROBERTO BACCARINI
Marisa Maresca
Vintage gelatin silver print, signed recto.
11.22 x 8.86 in.
Starting price: € 300 | Estimate : € 300 - 500 | Sold for : € 300
Lot 88
ROBERTO BACCARINI
Jo-Hai Tong
Vintage gelatin silver print.
11.22 x 8.86 in.
Starting price: € 300 | Estimate : € 300 - 500
Lot 89
ROBERTO BACCARINI
Lina Gennari
Vintage gelatin silver print, photographer's credit stamp on the reverse.
11.22 x 8.86 in.
Starting price: € 300 | Estimate : € 300 - 500
Lot 90
ROBERTO BACCARINI
Rosetta Pedrani
Vintage gelatin silver print.
11.22 x 8.86 in.
Starting price: € 300 | Estimate : € 300 - 500
Lot 91
ROBERTO BACCARINI
Arimand-Banu
Vintage gelatin silver print.
11.02 x 8.27 in.
Arimand Banu was one of the most racy dancers who inflamed European theaters and café chantants in the roaring twenties and thirties. Her performances, in which her only costume was often the spire of boas and pythons, were
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Starting price: € 500 | Estimate : € 500 - 700
Lot 92
ROBERTO BACCARINI
Lidia Martora
Vintage gelatin silver print.
11.02 x 8.27 in.
Starting price: € 300 | Estimate : € 300 - 500
Lot 93
ROBERTO BACCARINI
Claude Génia
Vintage gelatin silver print.
11.02 x 8.27 in.
Starting price: € 300 | Estimate : € 300 - 500
Lot 94
ROBERTO BACCARINI
Bea Egervary
Vintage gelatin silver print.
11.22 x 9.06 in.
Starting price: € 300 | Estimate : € 300 - 500
Lot 95
ROBERTO BACCARINI
Mary Raoul sul set di 'Fiori d'arancio'
Vintage gelatin silver print.
11.42 x 8.86 in.
Starting price: € 300 | Estimate : € 300 - 500
Lot 96
ROBERTO BACCARINI
Nana de Herrera
Vintage gelatin silver print.
9.06 x 11.42 in.
Nana de Herrera was a Peruvian dancer, who become famous by the design of Max Ponty who portrayed her silhouette for the cigarettes 'Gitanes', inspiration for a famous portrait created by Tamara de Lempicka, now in private
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Starting price: € 500 | Estimate : € 500 - 700 | Sold for : € 1.200
Lot 97
ROBERTO BACCARINI
Elizaveta “Lila” Nikolska
Vintage gelatin silver print, signed on the reverse.
11.42 x 8.86 in.
Lila Nikolska was one of the most important classical dancers in the Twenties and Thirties, in 1926 posed for Maurice 'Pico' Picaud for the facade of the 'Folies Bergère' in Paris. The plaque, in
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Starting price: € 500 | Estimate : € 600 - 800
Lot 98
ROBERTO BACCARINI
Ljubov' Petrovna Orlov
Vintage silver gelatin print, signed recto.
9.06 x 6.50 in.
Starting price: € 300 | Estimate : € 300 - 500 | Sold for : € 300
Lot 99
ROBERTO BACCARINI
Elizaveta “Lila” Nikolska
Vintage gelatin silver print, photographer's credit stamp on the reverse.
8.86 x 6.50 in.
Lila Nikolska was one of the most important classical dancers in the Twenties and Thirties, in 1926 posed for Maurice 'Pico' Picaud for the facade of the 'Folies Bergère' in Paris.
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Starting price: € 500 | Estimate : € 600 - 800
Lot 100
LEO MATIZ 1917-1998
Frida Kahlo
Gelatin silver print, photographer's credit stamp recto and a label on the reverse.
13.78 x 10.83 in.
Starting price: € 500 | Estimate : € 600 - 800 | Sold for : € 600