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Sironi, Mario / Pica , Agnoldomenico
(Sassari 1885 - Milano 1961 & 0)
Mario Sironi. Painter, 1955
Estimate
€ 200 - 250
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€ 384
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Milan, Edizioni del Milione, 1955. In 2 °. Large photo of the artist in the front door, frontispiece printed in red and black, illustrated with color and black and white plates, some papers with yellowed margin, editorial binding in green canvas with title embossed in red on the front plate, dust jacket illustrated in blue and white, slight defects. a dedication by Sironi to the American photographer Sanford H. Roth (New York 1906 - Rome 1962).
The lot also includes two sheets of vintage specimens and & nbsp ; some original negatives still in the envelope of the "Picto", the Pictorial Service of Paris.
Specialist Notes
In Agnoldomenico Pica's monograph on Mario Sironi, published for the editions of Milione in 1955, a famous image of the artist while sitting in his Milanese home appears on a full page. The shot was made by the American photographer Sanford H. Roth (New York 1906 - Rome 1962), specialized in portraits of American and European actors and artists, published in major international magazines. He was in particular a friend of James Dean, but all the major protagonists of cinema and art of those years paraded in front of his lens. In Italy he portrayed, among others, Alberto Burri and Gino Severini, as well as of course Sironi. Other images of the photo shoot relating to the latter were published in 2014 in “Mario Sironi. Drawings and tempera, from futurism to the postwar period ”, published by Polistampa for the Laocoonte Gallery, with a text by Fabio Benzi. The lot brings together the copy of Pica's monograph bearing Sironi's handwritten dedication to Sanford, two sheets of period specimens relating to the photo shoot mentioned above and some original negatives still in the "Picto" Pictorial Service in Paris, a mythical laboratory founded in 1950 whose first customers were the most famous photographers of Magnum.