Mar 11, 2021 - Sale 2561

Sale 2561 - Lot 373

Price Realized: $ 3,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,200 - $ 1,800
(FASCISM)
An album of approximately 47 images displaying an Italian Fascist social group's art collection and learning center.


The Opera Nazionale Dopolavoro was a recreational group that provided young workers access to dances, sports, and cultural activities. The images display the organization's leaders in their neat uniforms touring the center's well-organized collection of paintings, architectural models, and sculpture. Silver prints, the images measuring 6 1/2x9 inches (16.5x22.9 cm.), and slightly smaller, and the reverse, the sheets slightly larger, mounted recto/verso. Oblong 4to, brown decorative leatherette, lightly edgeworn; a handwritten title page with the date. 1938