Sale 2458 - Art & Storytelling: Photographs & Photobooks, October 19, 2017

277 c FRANCO FONTANA (1933- ) A group of four vibrant landscape photographs, including two each of pastoral fields and beach scenes. Dye transfer prints (4), the images measuring 10x6 1 / 2 to 19 3 / 4 x13 inches (25.4x16.5 to 50.2x41.9 cm.), and the reverse, the sheets slightly larger, each with Fontana’s signature, date, and edition notation, in ink, on recto, all but the smallest also with his blind stamp and partial title, in ink, on recto. 1970-87 WITH—Franco Fontana. Wire Shadows. Chromogenic print, the image measuring 6 3 / 8 x9 3 / 4 inches (16.2x24.8 cm.), the mount 19 3 / 4 x15 3 / 4 inches (50.2x40 cm.), with the title, in pencil, on mount verso. 1970s. [5,000/7,500] From BeHold, NewYork; to a Private Collector, in 1975.