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Tuesday 12 December 2023, 10:30 AM • Milan

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Franco Fontana

(1933)

Sicilia, 1995

Artist's Resale Right

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€ 1.000 - 1.500

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Information

C-print, printed in 2008
cm 30,4 x 45 (cm 27,2 x 42,4 picture) | 11.9 x 17.6 in. (10.7 x 16.7 in. picture)

Edition 1 of 25

Titled, numbered, signed and dated in black ink with photographer's credit blind stamp on the white inferior recto


Work accompanied by Certificate of authenticity released by the photographer

Literature

Franco Fontana, Appunti Siciliani, Federico Motta Editore, Milan, p. 114
Internationally renowned above all for his colourful landscapes dominated by a chromatically astonishing nature, Franco Fontana has actually expressed himself in various fields, as demonstrated by this group of images ranging from the portrait of a Milva whose hair he highlights, to shots of architectural spaces captured in the most diverse places, but with the same curious, attentive gaze. This can be seen by comparing a series of buildings in Castellammare in Sicily and Los Angeles, which the photographer has shot with daring cuts that have allowed him to obtain images of a delightful geometrism.