Apr 19, 2018 - Sale 2474

Sale 2474 - Lot 197

Price Realized: $ 23,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 20,000 - $ 30,000
MARIO GIACOMELLI (1925-2000)
A portfolio entitled La Gente [The People]. Complete with 18 photographs. Silver prints, the images measuring 16x12 inches (40.6x30.5 cm.), and the reverse, each with Giacomelli's signature, in ink, series hand stamp, and the dates and numeric notation, in pencil, on verso; each photograph individually matted with the sequential number, numeric notation, and date, in pencil, on the undermat. Atlas folio-sized cream linen clamshell case with gilt-lettered leather title label, a seam starting; the colophon with the edition notation 4 (of 30); contents loose as issued. The Birstol Workshops in Photography, 1956-68; printed 1981

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La Buona Terra (The Good Earth), No. 143, 1964-65 La Buona Terra, No. 146, 1964-65 Gente del Sud (People of the South) Puglia, No. 252, 1958 La Buona Terra, No. 219, 1964-65 "I don't have hands that caress my face," Pretini, No. 71, 1968 Pretini, No. 72, 1962-63 Pretini, No. 70, 1968 La Buona Terra, No. 141, 1964-65 Scanno: Italy of the South, No. 57, 1963 "Death wil lcome and it will have your eyes," No. 99, 1966 "Death will come...," No. 97, 1966 Death will come...," No. 95, 1966 "Figura (La Nuda), No. 271, 1958 Scanno, No. 52, 1957-59 La Buona Terra, No. 208, 1964-65 Pretini, No., 74, 1968 Scanno, No. 72, 1957-59 Figura, No. 130 (Madre de Giacomelli), 1956.