Carlo Mollino – Alinari Archive print

Carlo Mollino - Untitled, 1962/1973 - 2016

Carlo Mollino - Untitled, 1962/1973 - 2016New Art Editions is delighted to exclusively offer you, jointly with the Alinari Archive, this exquisite limited edition by the famous Italian designer and photographer Carlo Mollino. The images are C-Type printed on velvet paper in the Alinari workshop in Florence, are produced in a one time and strictly limited edition of 10 and are certified by the Alinari Archive, owner of the original Mollino negatives, glass plates and vintages.

In a career that spanned more than four decades, Carlo Mollino designed buildings, homes, furniture, cars, aircraft. One of the most dashing figures of mid-century Italy, Mollino was famed for his design finesse and his elegant organicism. In 1949 he published an important book on photography: Message from the darkroom. Sometime around 1960, he began to seek out women—mostly dancers—in his native Turin, inviting them to his villa for late- night modeling sessions. The models would pose against extraordinary backdrops, designed by Mollino, in clothing, wigs and accessories that he had carefully selected. Finally, having printed the Polaroids, Mollino would painstakingly amend them with an extremely fine brush, to at- tain his idealized vision of the female form. The 1200 pictures remained a secret until after his death, in 1973.

The image we are offering is ranked among Mollino's best photographic work and highly sought after by collectors and musea world wide. An original Mollino polaroid, with an image in a similar manner, fetched $31,250 at a Phillips action in June 2010.

Provenance: Fratelli Alinari Museum Collection, Florence, FVQ F 40444
Medium: c-type print on velvet paper
Image size: 15 x 11.5 cm  (5.9 x 4.5 in)
Sheet size: 48.5 x 33 cm  (19.1 x 13 in)
Limited edition of 10
Stamped on reverse, accompanied by a certificate of authenticity by Alinari
Price EU: € 2.000 + VAT

This limited edition Carlo Mollino print is exclusively available at New Art Editions

Carlo Mollino - Untitled, 1962/1973 - 2016About Alinari
Founded in Florence in 1852, Fratelli Alinari is the oldest firm in the world working in the field of photography, the image and communication. The birth of photography and the story of the Firm go hand in hand in their development and growth, as attested to by the immense Alinari owned fund of 4.000.000 photographs, collected in the Alinari Archives.

This fund is continuously growing and, thanks to a rational policy of new acquisitions and new photographic campaigns, it ranges from daguerreotypes to modern color photos. In 1852 Leopoldo Alinari, with his brothers Giuseppe and Romualdo, founded the photographic workshop, heart of the firm that still bears his name. It was the beginning of a unique endeavor that specialized in photographic portraiture, views of works of art and historical monuments, and achieved immediate national and international renown.

Today the name of Alinari guarantees a century of experience and state of the art professional technology. In 2001 the Digital Archive was inaugurated. It continues to grow and progress constantly with images that can be consulted on line. Today there are over 200,000 pictures available on the Alinari Archives business site and 100,000 in the Education section. Alinari is an irreplaceable point of reference for preserving, cataloguing, circulating and handing down, through the photograph, the history, society, art and culture of Italy and Europe.