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Vintage gelatin silver print
cm 29 x 37,8 (cm 26,2 x 35 picture) | 11.4 x 14.9 in. (10.3 x 13.7 in. picture)
Signed in black ink on the image with photographer's credit stamp on the verso
Taormina at the turn of the 19th and early 20th century was chosen as the ideal setting for the life and work of a number of intellectuals who saw in the Sicily of the time the ancient traces of Magna Grecia on which they, passionate Gran Tour enthusiasts, had been nourished. It was in this atmosphere that the two German cousins Wilhelm von Gloeden and Wilhelm von Pluschow worked, producing figures and portraits of the young islanders they idealised. Among Baron von Gloeden's assistants, an important role was played by Gaetano D'Agata from Catania, who had a fair reputation not only locally as a landscape painter. As far as the more limited production of male nudes is concerned, the all too overt repetition of von Gloeden's style emphasised his lack of personality. This is the case with the photograph proposed here, which traces the master's famous Cain without evoking his dark spirit. Nevertheless, for this very reason the image acquires an interesting collector's value.
cm 29 x 37,8 (cm 26,2 x 35 picture) | 11.4 x 14.9 in. (10.3 x 13.7 in. picture)
Signed in black ink on the image with photographer's credit stamp on the verso
Taormina at the turn of the 19th and early 20th century was chosen as the ideal setting for the life and work of a number of intellectuals who saw in the Sicily of the time the ancient traces of Magna Grecia on which they, passionate Gran Tour enthusiasts, had been nourished. It was in this atmosphere that the two German cousins Wilhelm von Gloeden and Wilhelm von Pluschow worked, producing figures and portraits of the young islanders they idealised. Among Baron von Gloeden's assistants, an important role was played by Gaetano D'Agata from Catania, who had a fair reputation not only locally as a landscape painter. As far as the more limited production of male nudes is concerned, the all too overt repetition of von Gloeden's style emphasised his lack of personality. This is the case with the photograph proposed here, which traces the master's famous Cain without evoking his dark spirit. Nevertheless, for this very reason the image acquires an interesting collector's value.
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