Vittorio Verri
Desiderio

Desiderio
Desiderio
Desiderio
ArtistItalian, birthdate not known
CultureItalian
Titles
  • Desiderio
Date1962
PlaceItaly
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage/Sheet: 14 13/16 × 11 1/4 in. (37.6 × 28.6 cm)
Credit LineThe Carla and Lorenzo Borlenghi Collection of Italian Photographs, museum purchase funded by the Director's Accessions Endowment as a matching gift to donations of Ermy Borlenghi and Gordon Bonfield and Cathy and Giorgio Borlenghi
Object number2000.21
Not on view

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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.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
verso in red "XLVI/22", "133[circled]", in pencil "13[squared in purole]", in blue "1/4[in a triangle]"
top left in pencil reading vertically "34"


verso center a purple stamp "ENAL Circolo Fotografico-Vicenza / I Concorso Naz. Fotografia Artistica / "CITTA DIVICENZA / DICEMBRE 1962 / OPERA ACCETTATA"
lower left a purple stamp with additions in ink "PHOTO BY VITTORIO VERRI / VIALE PISA, 6-MILANO / NO.1 / TITLE DESIDERIO / CAMERA: EXAKTA / LENS / EXPOSURE: LENS STOP:4 / SHUTTER SPEED:1/50 / Agfa 154"

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