WEB AUCTION 118 - LIBRI E AUTOGRAFI

LEONARDO SCIASCIA - FRANCO ROGNONI
Napoleone
Franco Sciardelli, Milano 1998

In-folio 33.5x24.5 cm
Edition printed on Sicars paper in 150 numbered copies, 120 of which in Arabic numerals.
Fully illustrated in colour in the text and outside the text 2 original colour lithographs by Franco Rognoni, hand-pressed on Japan and signed by the artist.
(Defects to the paperback)

RAINER MARIA RILKE - SANDRO CHIA
Orfeo - Euridice - Hermes - Alcesti
Verona nell’officina Chimérea, 1999

In-folio 34.5x26 cm
Edition by Gino Castiglioni & Alessandro Corubolo in only sixty-six copies.
Three etchings by Sandro Chia

CAMILLO SBARBARO - GIULIA NAPOLEONE
Rimanenze
Milano, Cento amici dei libri 2001

In-folio 31x22.7 cm
One copy of a hundred and thirty printed on Magnani paper.
Seven engravings by Giulia Napoleone

A.N. AFANASEV
Fiabe russe proibite
Schialvino 2001

In-folio 36.5x26 cm
Edition printed on handmade paper from the Magnani paper mills in only one hundred copies.
Seven colour woodcuts by Francesco Tabusso

RICCARDO BACCHELLI - TOMMASO CASCELLA
Poemi Lirici
Ampersand (Santa Lucia ai Monti) 2002

In-folio 31.5.5x21.5 cm
Limited edition printed on Magnani paper of only one hundred numbered copies.
Woodcuts and collages by Tommaso Cascella
(Small lack in the lower part of the cover)

CARLO COLLODI
Le avventure di Pinocchio storia di un burattino
Dogliani Castello, Cuneo 2002

In-folio 34.3x25.5 cm
Edition printed on Sicars paper from Catania in four hundred and fifty-five copies.
Illustrated with 125 drawings by Teresita Terreno

GILLO DORFLES
NASCOSTI INTRECCI.
Edizioni Colophon, 2002

In-folio 52x37 cm

Edition printed in one hundred copies, of which this is the thirty-fifth.

Nascosti intrecci gathers the works of seven of the most prestigious artists designed for a man recognised by all as an exemplary intellectual and artistic reference.

Combined with youthful compositions by Dorfles himself, the graphics of Enrico Baj, Agostino Bonalumi, Enrico Castellani, Jannis Kounellis, Mimmo Paladino, Giulio Paolini and Arnaldo Pomodoro come to succession throughout the pages of this artist's book, parted graphically, but all linked together in a unicum that lives on the affection and esteem for the friend and critic Dorfles.

With an ironical gaze at the everyday life, Enrico Baj offers the image of a miniature female figure, made entirely out of collage, in which we should seek for the aunt who, in the poetic text on the side, wanted to fill the poet
with kisses and hugs, beared with the typical youthful impatience.

Vertigini nascoste (Hidden vertigo) pairss an intaglio-collage by Agostino Bonalumi, where the shaped image is positioned in a way that points out clearly the three-dimensionality, by making the lightness of the sign and the lightness of the image even more significant, still underlining the almost evanescence of the aquatint backgrounds.

Thanks to a strict bond with Dorfles himself who, by the way, finds a truly relevant historical point of reference for his artistic development in the first issue of the magazine Azimuth, Enrico Castellani creates an image in which the optical centre is shifted to the left of the geometric centre, as if he was trying to portray the non-rituality of hisanalysis and a tribute to the power of that analysis itself.

In the black on white lithograph on stone by Jannis Kounellis, the sign strongly marks the borders of a hypothetical maze, a metaphor not only for the artist's and scholar's research, but also for everyday life, in its every single and apparently secondary manifestation.

In his linoelography, Mimmo Paladino seems to suggest a tribute to Dorfles as a man, to his intellectual value and professional rigour, as well as to his moral integrity.

Giulio Paolini re-offers otherwise a very specifical image, a small paper with the word poetry on, on which Gillo Dorfles lingered on with particular attention on the occasion of Paolini's first solo exhibition in Milan at the Galleria dell'Ariete, in memory of an encouragement that will always accompany him in his artistic career.

In conclusion we find a bas-relief on paper by Arnaldo Pomodoro, whose internal tension finds a perfect reference in the verses by Dorfles: "Liquid pain the molten lead: in the water, in the vast tub, it turns into a hard, spongy boulder, bristling with recesses fixed without return in a hirsute form. Before it was a smooth surface, master of space.

DINO GARRONE - TERESITA TERRENO
Una notte di Natale
Dogliani Castello 2004

In-folio 33.5x23 cm
Edition printed in only one hundred copies.
Three engravings by Teresita Castello

ULYSSES GRANT
Lunga lettera autografa firmata dal generale dell'esercito degli Stati Uniti, 18 ° presidente degli Stati
Uniti, datata "St. Pietroburgo, 7 agosto 76 ", a sua figlia Nellie Grant, che aveva sposato due anni prima
l'inglese Algernon Sartoris. Dopo la fine del secondo mandato presidenziale Grant, intraprende con la
sua famiglia un tour mondiale che durerа piщ di due anni e mezzo (1877 - 1879). In Russia, lo zar
Alessandro II invierа una carrozza imperiale per condurre la famiglia Grant al Palazzo d'Estate. Come
ex presidente, Grant fu spesso accolto con grande entusiasmo dai capi di stato stranieri. Quattro
pagine (11,3 cm x 17,5 cm) in inglese, piccoli strappi e leggere tracce di colla.

MORITZ MOSZKOWSKI
Citazione musicale autografa firmata dal compositore e pianista tedesco, datata "Berlin d. 5/5 1892 ".
Una pagina (11,3 x 17,3 cm) su cartoncino, in buone condizioni. Sul retro:
autografo datato "Vienna ottobre 1893" del grande tenore Roberto Stagno.

MATAĺS ROMERO
Lettera autografa firmata in inglese, datata "Cittа del Messico, 10 gennaio 1893" dal politico e
diplomatico messicano, che ha servito due volte l'ambasciatore del Messico negli Stati Uniti. Romero si
rivolge alla signora Sartoris, in pieno (con difetti): " Dear Mrs. Sartoris In answer to your letter of the
19th ultimo it gives me pleasure to enclose to you a
letter that President Diaz addresses to you containing his autograph. Mrs. Romero es en
Washington and have been for a few months (…) assisting Gen. Diaz, as secretary of the
Treasure ". Una pagina (13,3 cm x 20,7 cm) in inglese, in buone condizioni, con una lacrima in alto a
sinistra e tracce di colla sul retro.

EDMOND DE POLIGNAC
Una lettera autografa e un biglietto con firma, scritti dall’aristocratico e compositore francese, datati
1908 e 1941. Il compositore era noto nei salotti culturali dell’epoca come la moglie Winnaretta Singer
(principessa de Polignac) grande mecenate e amica di Igor Stravinskij.