Mar 16, 2017 - Sale 2439

Sale 2439 - Lot 23

Unsold
Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000
MARIO PUPPO (1905-1977) CORTINA. 1938.
39 1/2x26 3/4 inches, 100 1/4x68 cm. Pizzi & Pizio, Milan.
Condition B+ / B: replaced losses at edges; repaired tears, creases and restoration in margins and along vertical and horizontal folds; minor restored losses in image.
A bold, confident image in which the angle of the slope is echoed by the man's arm and the direction of the couple's gaze, and whose ski poles parallel the slant of the typography. Bolaffi p. 181, Travel Italia p. 57, Crouse p. 289.