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
Lot 11
ANNA PISULA MANDZIEJ
Paesaggio con rocce 1994
Vintage gelatin silver print, signed, dated and numbered 1/20 recto.
15.75 x 19.68 in.
Starting price: € 500 | Estimate : € 600 - 800
Lot 12
GIANNI BERENGO GARDIN 1930
Parigi 1953
Gelatin silver print printed 1970 circa, photographer's credit stamp, titled and dated by Gardin on the reverse.
8.86 x 11.42 in.
Starting price: € 600 | Estimate : € 800 - 1.000
Lot 13
FULVIO ROITER 1926-2016
Venezia, Bambini 1977
Vintage gelatin silver print, signed on the reverse.
8.66 x 9.25 in.
Starting price: € 400 | Estimate : € 500 - 700 | Sold for : € 400
Lot 14
MARIO GIACOMELLI 1925-2000
Gabbiano 1983
Gelatin silver print, signed by the author on the reverse. Signed, titled and dated on the original passe-partout.
11.81 x 15.75 in.
Starting price: € 800 | Estimate : € 300 - 600 | Sold for : € 800
Lot 15
MARIO GIACOMELLI 1925-2000
Untitled from the series 'Prime opere' Early 1960s
Gelatin silver print, photographer's credit stamp on the reverse.
10.24 x 11.81 in.
Rare shot belonging to the ‘Prime Opere’, the series that includes
the portraits and the first works realized between the mid-fifties
and the early sixties. Here Giacomelli portrays,
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Starting price: € 700 | Estimate : € 800 - 1.000
Lot 16
MARIO GIACOMELLI 1925-2000
Paesaggi 1980-1990
Vintage gelatin silver prints, both signed recto and signed and dedicated on the reverse.
5.91 x 3.94 in.
Starting price: € 600 | Estimate : € 600 - 800 | Sold for : € 600
Lot 17
MARIO GIACOMELLI 1925-2000
'Io non ho mani che mi accarezzino il viso' dalla serie Pretini 1961-1963
Gelatin silver print, printed 1983, signed by the author on the reverse. Signed, titled and dated on the original passe-partout.
11.81 x 15.75 in.
Starting price: € 2.500 | Estimate : € 3.000 - 5.000
Lot 18
MARIO GIACOMELLI 1925-2000
'Scanno' 1957-1959
Gelatin silver print, printed 1983, signed by the author on the reverse. Signed, titled and dated on the original passe-partout. Foxing on the passe-partout and partially along the margins of the photograph.
15.75 x 11.81 in.
Starting price: € 1.500 | Estimate : € 2.000 - 3.000
Lot 19
GIORGIO AVIGDOR 1932-2019
Untitled (Still life) 1970
Vintage gelatin silver print, signed and dated on the reverse.
7.87 x 11.61 in.
Starting price: € 300 | Estimate : € 400 - 600 | Sold for : € 550
Lot 20
RAÚL CORRALES 1925-2006
Caballeria 1960
Gelatin silver print, printed 1996, signed and titled on the reverse.
11.81 x 15.75 in.
Starting price: € 400 | Estimate : € 500 - 700 | Sold for : € 425
Lot 21
GIORGIO LOTTI E MARINA CIRINEI
Treno Zhou en Lai, Cina e Elettromotrice Ale 840 1980
Two vintage gelatin silver prints, photographer's credit stamp on the reverse.
9.45 x 12.01 in.
Starting price: € 300 | Estimate : € 400 - 600 | Sold for : € 300
Lot 22
CANDIDA HÖFER 1944
British Library London V 1994
Color C-print, titled, dated and numbered 6/6 on the reverse.
15.75 x 23.62 in.
CAMERA'S SELECTION
The greatest portraitist of libraries in the world, to which also
Umberto Eco has dedicated an essay, belonging to that “Düsseldorf School” which dominated the world
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Starting price: € 1.800 | Estimate : € 1.800 - 2.500 | Sold for : € 4.000
Lot 23
Shrine of the book 2007
Color C-print, signed, titled, dated, numbered 2/7 on the reverse.
10.63 x 15.35 in.
Starting price: € 200 | Estimate : € 300 - 400
Lot 24
GEORGE TATGE 1951
Raccoglitrici di cicoria 1982
Gelatin silver print, photographer's credit stamp recto, titled, signed, dated and numbered 4/10 on the reverse.
23.82 x 19.68 in.
CAMERA'S SELECTION
George Tatge is a less-quoted author than he deserves, destined to acquire more and more consideration in the
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Starting price: € 1.000 | Estimate : € 1.200 - 1.600 | Sold for : € 1.400
Lot 25
SERENA GALLINI 1977
In punta di piedi 2006
Vintage gelatin silver print, signed, dated, titled and numbered 1/5 on the reverse.
14.17 x 18.31 in.
Starting price: € 400 | Estimate : € 500 - 700
Lot 26
GEORGE TATGE 1951
Tre cipressi 2012
Color C-print, photographer's credit stamp recto, titled, signed, dated and numbered 3/10 on the reverse.
23.62 x 17.72 in.
Starting price: € 800 | Estimate : € 1.000 - 1.500
Lot 27
Tree and three windows 2012
Color C-print, photographer's credit stamp recto, titled, signed, dated and numbered 4/10 on the reverse.
23.62 x 17.72 in.
Starting price: € 800 | Estimate : € 1.000 - 1.400
Lot 28
The pink bomb 2015
Color C-print, photographer's credit stamp recto, titled, signed, dated and numbered 2/10 on the reverse.
24.02 x 17.72 in.
Starting price: € 800 | Estimate : € 1.000 - 1.400
Lot 29
LOLA ALVAREZ BRAVO 1907-1993
Untitled (Portrait) 1940 circa
Gelatin silver print printed 1980 circa, signed on the reverse.
9.84 x 7.87 in.
Starting price: € 600 | Estimate : € 700 - 900
Lot 30
ANGUS MCBEAN 1904-1990
Untitled (Portrait in costume) 1948
Vintage gelatin silver print mounted on cardboard, signed and dated recto, inscribed on the reverse.
15.75 x 11.54 in.
Starting price: € 700 | Estimate : € 800 - 1.000
Lot 31
TAZIO SECCHIAROLI 1925-1998
Federico Fellini 1959
Gelatin silver print, printed 2014, Archivio Secchiaroli credit stamp on the reverse.
19.68 x 15.75 in.
CAMERA'S SELECTION
Federico Fellini, multifaceted artist and undisputed emblem
of Italian and international cinema, is here immortalized by
Tazio Secchiaroli,
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Starting price: € 700 | Estimate : € 800 - 1.000 | Sold for : € 700
Lot 32
TAZIO SECCHIAROLI 1925-1998
Gina Lollobrigida on the set of 'Un bellissimo novembre' 1969
Vintage gelatin silver print, photographer's credit stamp on the reverse.
7.87 x 11.61 in.
Starting price: € 400 | Estimate : € 500 - 700 | Sold for : € 400
Lot 33
Gino De Dominicis 1973
Gelatin silver print, printed 1999, photographer's credit stamp on the reverse.
15.75 x 11.42 in.
Starting price: € 600 | Estimate : € 600 - 800 | Sold for : € 600
Lot 34
Alighiero Boetti 1973
Gelatin silver print, printed 1999, photographer's credit stamp on the reverse.
15.75 x 11.42 in.
Starting price: € 600 | Estimate : € 600 - 800 | Sold for : € 600
Lot 35
Linda prays 1995
Color C-print on aluminum, signed, titled, dated and numbered 6/10 on the reverse. This is the only photography printed in this size.
35.43 x 24.02 in.
Starting price: € 1.500 | Estimate : € 1.500 - 2.500
Lot 36
Photomatic 1980 circa
Vintage gelatin silver print, photographer’s credit stamp.
9.06 x 13.39 in.
Starting price: € 400 | Estimate : € 500 - 700
Lot 37
RAFAEL NAVARRO 1940
Untitled (Nude on film) 1976
Vintage gelatin silver print, signed, dated and numbered 3/50 recto.
9.84 x 6.50 in.
Starting price: € 400 | Estimate : € 500 - 700
Lot 38
TONO STANO 1960
Untitled (Abstract nude) 1984
Vintage gelatin silver print, photographer's credit stamp and dated on the reverse.
11.02 x 15.16 in.
Starting price: € 500 | Estimate : € 600 - 800
Lot 39
LESLIE KRIMS 1942
The only Photograph in the world ever to cause a kidnapping- Portfolio 1970-1971
Six vintage gelatin silver prints mounted on original cardboard, textile chemise with slipcase, five facsimile pages from newspaper articles and titlepage, 1/25.
The portfolio includes: Amputee on podium screaming (1970), Nude and smoking ashtray (1971), Woman with
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Starting price: € 4.500 | Estimate : € 5.000 - 7.000 | Sold for : € 4.500
Lot 40
JEFF DUNAS 1954
Paris Studio Nude 1989
Vintage gelatin silver print, signed, titled and dated recto.
17.32 x 14.17 in.
Starting price: € 1.000 | Estimate : € 1.200 - 1.500
Lot 41
KEN DAMI 1949
Nude 2005
Vintage gelatin silver print, signed, dated and numbered 5/5 on the reverse.
11.81 x 15.94 in.
Starting price: € 800 | Estimate : € 800 - 1.000
Lot 42
RALPH GIBSON 1939
Untitled (Nude with photography) 1991
Vintage gelatin silver print, signed and dated recto.
8.27 x 12.40 in.
Starting price: € 1.200 | Estimate : € 1.200 - 1.500
Lot 43
JEFF DUNAS 1954
Untitled (Reclining nude) 1980 circa
Vintage color C-print, signed and numbered 18/100 on the reverse.
11.81 x 16.54 in.
Starting price: € 400 | Estimate : € 500 - 700
Lot 44
Cariatide VI 1999
Vintage gelatin silver print, signed, titled, dated and numbered 1/3 recto.
17.91 x 12.60 in.
Starting price: € 800 | Estimate : € 800 - 1.000
Lot 45
LUCIEN CLERGUE 1934-2015
Untitled (Nude and shadow) 1980 circa
Vintage color C-print, signed on the reverse.
11.81 x 17.91 in.
Starting price: € 800 | Estimate : € 800 - 1.000 | Sold for : € 800
Lot 46
NOBUYOSHI ARAKI 1940
Untitled (Sunflowers Vanitas)
Vintage color C-print, signed and numbered 7/25 on the reverse.
10.94 x 13.98 in.
Starting price: € 400 | Estimate : € 500 - 700 | Sold for : € 550
Lot 47
NOBUYOSHI ARAKI 1940
Untitled 2005
Polaroid, signed on the reverse. Artwork accompanied by a certificate of authenticity from Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo.
4.21 x 3.46 in.
Starting price: € 350 | Estimate : € 450 - 650 | Sold for : € 350
Lot 48
NOBUYOSHI ARAKI 1940
Untitled 2005-2006
Polaroid, signed on the reverse.
4.21 x 3.46 in.
Starting price: € 400 | Estimate : € 600 - 800 | Sold for : € 500
Lot 49
NOBUYOSHI ARAKI 1940
Pola Eros 2005
Polaroid, signed on the reverse. Artwork accompanied by a certificate of authenticity from Bloomsbury Gallery, Turin.
4.21 x 3.46 in.
Starting price: € 400 | Estimate : € 600 - 800 | Sold for : € 400
Lot 50
NOBUYOSHI ARAKI 1940
Untitled 2005-2006
Polaroid, signed on the reverse.
4.21 x 3.46 in.
Starting price: € 350 | Estimate : € 450 - 650 | Sold for : € 450