142
Ormond Gigli
Girls in the Windows, 1960.
Chromogenic print
Stima:
€ 10,000 / $ 11,000 Risultato:
€ 11,430 / $ 12,573 ( commissione inclusa)
Girls in the Windows. 1960.
Chromogenic print.
Signed, dated and numbered on the reverse. From an edition of 100 copies. On Fujicolor Chrystal Archive Paper. 50 x 50.8 cm (19.6 x 20 in). Sheet: 60,7 x 63,4 cm (23,8 x 24,9 in).
The photo was shot in 1960 while the edition was printed at a later point. [AR].
• Iconic photo by the American photographer Ormond Gigli.
• The work shows 43 women in the windows of a house under renovation, and was taken spontaneously during the workers' lunch break.
• It shows models and friends of Ormond, as well as his wife and the wife of the house's manager.
• The photographer became known in the early 1950s through photographs of celebrities such as Sophia Loren and Anita Ekberg.
• "Girls in the Windows" is one of his most famous and sought-after works.
PROVENANCE: Corporate Collection Ahlers AG, Herford (since 2013).
EXHIBITION: #DepictingWomen - beauty, goddess, motherhood, bathing, soliciting, fulfilling, fragment, Foundation Ahlers Pro Arte, Herford, September 15 - December 9, 2018, cat. pp. 86 and 48 (illu.).
LITERATURE: Villa Grisebach, Berlin, auction 216, Moderne und Zeitgenössische Photographie, November 27, 2013, lot 2059.
Chromogenic print.
Signed, dated and numbered on the reverse. From an edition of 100 copies. On Fujicolor Chrystal Archive Paper. 50 x 50.8 cm (19.6 x 20 in). Sheet: 60,7 x 63,4 cm (23,8 x 24,9 in).
The photo was shot in 1960 while the edition was printed at a later point. [AR].
• Iconic photo by the American photographer Ormond Gigli.
• The work shows 43 women in the windows of a house under renovation, and was taken spontaneously during the workers' lunch break.
• It shows models and friends of Ormond, as well as his wife and the wife of the house's manager.
• The photographer became known in the early 1950s through photographs of celebrities such as Sophia Loren and Anita Ekberg.
• "Girls in the Windows" is one of his most famous and sought-after works.
PROVENANCE: Corporate Collection Ahlers AG, Herford (since 2013).
EXHIBITION: #DepictingWomen - beauty, goddess, motherhood, bathing, soliciting, fulfilling, fragment, Foundation Ahlers Pro Arte, Herford, September 15 - December 9, 2018, cat. pp. 86 and 48 (illu.).
LITERATURE: Villa Grisebach, Berlin, auction 216, Moderne und Zeitgenössische Photographie, November 27, 2013, lot 2059.
142
Ormond Gigli
Girls in the Windows, 1960.
Chromogenic print
Stima:
€ 10,000 / $ 11,000 Risultato:
€ 11,430 / $ 12,573 ( commissione inclusa)