20th CENTURY ART
AUCTION
Wednesday 6 November 2019
2.00 pm | lots 1-353; 5.00 pm | lots 354-557
Sala Bolaffi, via Cavour 17, Turin, Italy
VIEWING
From Friday 1 to Wednesday 6 November (Sunday included), 10.00 am - 6.00 pm
Extraordinary opening on Saturday 2 November 7.00 pm - 12:00 am during the Night of Contemporary Arts
Lot 1
China, Australia and Japan 19th Century
Fifty-one double page album (102 plates) with albumen prints, among them some watercolored, some photomechanical small size prints. Parchment binding with gild iron decoration.
Hong Kong: two views 8.27 x 10.43 in.
China: three military groups 8.27 x 10.43 in.
Canton:
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Starting price: € 1.500 | Estimate : € 2.000 - 3.000 | Sold for : € 1.500
Lot 2
LUIGI FIORILLO 1847-1898
Le bombardement d’Alexandrie du 11 Juillet 1882 1882
Fifty-one albumen prints on album with a folded printed map. Photographer’s name printed on paper from negative. Half cloth bound album, with title corners on the front piece, missing and worn spine. A folded single table is attached “Plan Croquis indiquant les maisons
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Starting price: € 1.000 | Estimate : € 1.500 - 2.500 | Sold for : € 1.000
Lot 3
Spring St. e Russell St., Melbourne 1880 circa
Two albumen vintage prints, both mounted on cardboard.
9.45 x 11.42 in.
Starting price: € 400 | Estimate : € 500 - 700
Lot 4
TOMMASO CUCCIONI 1790-1864
Roma 1860 circa
Light albumen print, photographer’s credit blind stamp on cardboard.
7.28 x 10.24 in.
Starting price: € 400 | Estimate : € 500 - 700 | Sold for : € 425
Lot 5
ADRIANO DE BONIS
Santa Maria in Aracoeli 1860 circa
Salt print, applied on light cardboard placed by four corners.
Starting price: € 600 | Estimate : € 800 - 1.000
Lot 6
DOMENICO PERETTI GRIVA 1882-1962
Alberobello, un trullo 1930 circa
Bromoil pigment vintage print, signed and titled recto, original frame.
7.87 x 11.81 in.
Starting price: € 300 | Estimate : € 400 - 600
Lot 7
BRUNO MINIATI 1889-1974
Vele 'Amerigo Vespucci' 1938
Vintage gelatin silver print, signed on cardboard.
11.61 x 9.25 in.
Starting price: € 400 | Estimate : € 500 - 700 | Sold for : € 400
Lot 8
GUIDO REY 1861-1935
Cervino - Matterhorn 1920 circa
Vintage gelatin silver print. Signed “GR” in red pencil on the reverse.
7.28 x 10.55 in.
CAMERA'S SELECTION
The work of Guido Rey follows the great mountain photography
made by the Sella family, to which he was tied because he was
Quintino’s nephew. The shot depicts
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Starting price: € 800 | Estimate : € 1.000 - 1.200 | Sold for : € 800
Lot 9
Lingua glossa 1953
Vintage gelatin silver print, photographer's credit stamp, titled, dated and signed on the reverse.
19.88 x 15.75 in.
Starting price: € 500 | Estimate : € 600 - 800
Lot 10
FULVIO ROITER 1926-2016
Taccuino sardo - Cave di tufo 1950 circa
Vintage gelatin silver print, photographer’s credit stamp on the reverse.
18.70 x 15.75 in.
Starting price: € 800 | Estimate : € 1.000 - 1.200