Estimate
€ 2.500 - 3.500
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€ 2.000
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At auction on Wednesday 18 June 2025 at 16:00
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Inkjet print, printed later
cm 54,3 x 74,3 (cm 39,6 x 59 picture) | 21.4 x 29.3 in. (15.6 x 23.2 in. picture)
Titled, dated and signed in pencil pon the white inferior recto margin
Framed
When Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana founded the fashion house that had their names on it in 1985, they could count on a modest budget but deeply innovative ideas. Two years later, for the advertising campaign of their first catalog they involved model Marpessa Hennink, who agreed to work for free and do her own makeup, and Ferdinando Scianna to evoke the Mediterranean roots that inspired the collection. It was his Sicily that was the ideal set in which they shot photographs that mixed the charm of reportage dear to the photographer and the subtle mystery that emanated from the model. Her face framed by her hair falling in a messy way occupies the upper part of the image, and the shot from bottom is emphasized by her upward gaze: in this way Scianna transforms the Dutch girl into an icon of Sicilian-ness. This is even more evident in the very famous image where four simply dressed commoners and the model who stands out by moving her feet in a vexatious posture are placed side by side against the background of a white wall in a deliberate and emphasized contrast.
cm 54,3 x 74,3 (cm 39,6 x 59 picture) | 21.4 x 29.3 in. (15.6 x 23.2 in. picture)
Titled, dated and signed in pencil pon the white inferior recto margin
Framed
Exhibition
Other exemplar in collection at the Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Turin - Property of Fondazione per l'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea CRT
Literature
Scianna. MARPESSA. un racconto, Ed. Leonardo, Milan, 1993
Ferdinando Scianna (Bagheria, Palermo 1943) has always been guided a little by chance, as when in 1963 Leonardo Sciascia visited and appreciated his first exhibition, and a lot by determination, which pushed him to introduce himself to the writer who would become his great friend and shortly thereafter the extender of the text for “ Feste religiose in Sicilia,” the first of the many beloved books he would publish. Turning professional, for L' Europeo he was a correspondent in Paris where he met Cartier-Bresson, who introduced him to Magnum, of which he became a member in 1989. Always working in black and white, he combines magnificent reportages and appreciated portraits of great intellectuals with his collaboration with Dolce and Gabbana: he thus also established himself in the fashion world by publishing in Vogue and Grazia. When Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana founded the fashion house that had their names on it in 1985, they could count on a modest budget but deeply innovative ideas. Two years later, for the advertising campaign of their first catalog they involved model Marpessa Hennink, who agreed to work for free and do her own makeup, and Ferdinando Scianna to evoke the Mediterranean roots that inspired the collection. It was his Sicily that was the ideal set in which they shot photographs that mixed the charm of reportage dear to the photographer and the subtle mystery that emanated from the model. Her face framed by her hair falling in a messy way occupies the upper part of the image, and the shot from bottom is emphasized by her upward gaze: in this way Scianna transforms the Dutch girl into an icon of Sicilian-ness. This is even more evident in the very famous image where four simply dressed commoners and the model who stands out by moving her feet in a vexatious posture are placed side by side against the background of a white wall in a deliberate and emphasized contrast.
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