Carlo Mantovani
Reflection

Reflection
Reflection
Reflection
ArtistItalian, born 1915
CultureItalian
Titles
  • Reflection
Date1954
PlaceItaly
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage/Sheet: 10 1/4 × 15 5/8 in. (26 × 39.7 cm)
Credit LineThe Carla and Lorenzo Borlenghi Collection of Italian Photographs, museum purchase funded by Ermy Borlenghi and Gordon Bonfield, and Cathy and Giorgio Borlenghi
Object number2000.6
Non exposé

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Department
Photography
Object Type
Provenance[Keith de Lellis Gallery, New York]; purchased by MFAH, 2000.
Exhibition HistoryExhibited in "Postwar Italian Photograph" at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, February 2 to April 28, 2002.

Exhibited: "Out of the Ordinary", MFAH, Lower Brown Corridor, December 13, 2004 - March 14, 2005
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Stamped verso in an oval: "2o BIENNALE / Méditerranéenme / Photo - Cinema / Nice 1957"

Stamped verso in a square: "Gruppi Giovanili Adriatici / to Concorso Nasionale"

Stamped verso, lower right: "Mantovani Carlo - Venezia / S. Pole 1652 date 1944 (crossed out) / office "
Signed verso "Carlo Mantovani"

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