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ReturnMy Aunt (“Mi Piacerebe Avere una Fotografia per la Mia Tomba”)Inventory number: 3092
Title: My Aunt (“Mi Piacerebe Avere una Fotografia per la Mia Tomba”)
Date: ca. 1950
Medium: Vintage silver print
Image size: 13¾ in (34.9 cm) high by 10½ in (26.7 cm) wide
Description: Signed “Bertolino” in crayon, with typed name on slip of paper affixed to reverse of the flush masonite mount.
Provenance: Acquired directly from the photographer.
Illustrated: Klochko, Deborah. Ten Photographers, 1946–1954: The Legacy of Minor White, (2004), p. 4; Heick, William, Ira Latour & Cameron Macauley. The Golden Decade: Photography at the California School of Fine Arts, 1945–55, (2016), p. 73.
Price: $3,000
ReturnThe Girl on the Bench Inventory number: 3096
Title: The Girl on the Bench
Date: ca. 1950
Medium: Vintage silver print
Image size: 9⅝ in (24.4 cm) high by 6⅝ in (16.8 cm) wide
Description: Signed “Bertolino” in crayon, with typed name on small slip of paper, on reverse of the flush masonite mount.
Exhibitions: Italy-Photographs by John Bertolino, M. H. De Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, 1952 [one-man exh. consisting of 35 images]; Perceptions, San Francisco Museum of Art and traveling, 1954; Perceptions: Bay Area Photography, 1945-1960, Los Angles Valley College, Valley Glen, CA, February-March, 2006
Price: $3,000
ReturnPeace, Peace, But There Is No PeaceInventory number: 3093
Title: Peace, Peace, But There Is No Peace
Date: ca. 1950
Medium: Vintage silver print
Image size: 7⅝ in (19.4 cm) high by 9½ in (24.1 cm) wide
Description: Signed, “Bertolino,” in crayon, typed name on small slip of paper and title written on scrap of paper, on reverse of the flush masonite mount.
Price: $2,000
ReturnMotor BikersInventory number: 3094
Title: Motor Bikers
Date: ca. 1950
Medium: Vintage silver print
Image size: 9⅝ in (24.4 cm) high by 7 in (17.8 cm) wide
Description: Flush-mounted to Masonite.
Price: $2,500
ReturnUntitled [Magazines]Inventory number: 3103
Title: Untitled [Magazines]
Date: 1948
Medium: Vintage silver print
Image size: 4¼ in (10.8 cm) high by 3¼ in (8.3 cm) wide
Description: Signed “Bertolino” in pencil on the mount.
Price: $2,500
ReturnSelling the NewsInventory number: 3100
Title: Selling the News
Date: ca. 1950
Medium: Vintage silver print
Image size: 9⅝ in (24.4 cm) high by 6½ in (16.5 cm) wide
Description: Flush-mounted to masonite.
Provenance: Acquired directly from the photographer.
Price: $2,500
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