Untitled, 1968-1973

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CARLO MOLLINO (1905-1973)
Untitled, 1968-1973
two unique Polaroid prints, each flush-mounted on card
each image 3 ¾ x 3 in. (9.5 x 7.6 cm.)
each sheet/flush mount 4 ¼ x 3 ½ in. (10.9 x 8.8 cm.)
Untitled (Lace wrap) numbered 582 in pencil (flush mount, verso), Untitled (Standing, wedding negligee) stamped C. M. Torino in red ink and numbered 539 in pencil (flush mount, verso); each credited, titled, dated and numbered CM 1282 and CM 1304, respectively, on an affixed gallery label (frame backing board)

Provenance

Fulvio Ferrari Gallery, Turin, 1985-1995;
Salon 94, New York, 1995;
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 2003.

Literature

F. Ferrari, N. Ferrari, Carlo Mollino Polaroids, Verona, 2002, this lot illustrated pp. 185, 259.

Exhibited

Carlo Mollino, Women, Robert Miller Gallery, New York, 17 October - 25 November 1995.

Special notice

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Lot Essay

The present lot is registered in the library of the Museo Casa Mollino, Turin, as numbers CM-1282 and CM-1304.

Christie's wishes to thank Fulvio Ferrari and Napoleone Ferrari, Museo Casa Mollino, Turin, for their assistance with the cataloguing of this lot.

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