MARIO GIACOMELLI (1925 2000) La Gente del Sud Scanno

Sale 2594 - Lot 195

Price Realized: $ 5,000

?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price

Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000

MARIO GIACOMELLI (1925-2000)
La Gente del Sud: Scanno. Silver print, the image measuring 11 1/2x15 1/8 inches (29.2x38.4 cm.), with Giacomelli's copyright and Scanno stamps, and the dates and lengthy notations about the success of this image, in ink, on verso. 1959; printed 1970s

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From the Photographer to the Present Owner in 1992.

The lengthy inscription reads: This is the image that the curator of the L'Elysée Museum in Lausanne, Charles-Henri Favrod, saw it sold for 10,000 dollars, about 15 million
And that Stefano Brigidi has sold to several American museums for over 3 million lire
The most requested and the highest paid
It is exhibited and sold more or less in all the countries of the world, so to speak, because I don't remember where and when (…)
It is part of the collection of the director of the New York Museum of Art, John Szarkowski, the only Italian chosen - the most (...) of the joys lived so great and so true