Franco Gentilini - Lot with 2 Critical Reference Works - 1967-2000

Gentilini. General Catalog of the Paintings (1923-1981)
Author/Curator: Curated by Giuseppe Appella, with the collaboration of Margherita Manno and Laura Turco Liveri. Archive and scientific consultancy by Luciana Gentilini (wife of the artist). Introductory historical text by Gualtieri di San Lazzaro.
Publisher: De Luca Editori d'Arte, Rome.
Year of publication: 2000
Physical characteristics: A mammoth oversized volume (about 24 x 33 cm), protected by a fully colored illustrated slipcase/custody featuring the artist’s most famous paintings. The inner binding is rigid cardboard in dark blue full cloth with the artist’s name impressed in white on the front board. It contains 848 total pages.
Iconographic content: An imposing visual apparatus, consisting of 80 full-page color plates out of text and over 1,700 black-and-white reproductions.

2. Gentilini (Monograph F.lli Pozzo)
Author/Curator: Critical text by Marco Valsecchi. Art collection directed by the artist and painter Ezio Gribaudo.
Publisher: Edizioni d'Arte Fratelli Pozzo, Turin.
Year of publication: 1967 (Le Grandi Monografie series).
Physical characteristics: Volume in a horizontal/square format of large size, hard editorial binding in ochre/sand full cloth with the artist’s surname pressed in blue relief on the front board. Pages printed on heavy paper of the highest typographic quality, with numerous color plates mounted by hand out of text.
Type: Historical-art and collectible monograph. The Pozzo editions curated by Gribaudo in the 1960s are famous among bibliophiles for the incredible chromatic fidelity of the reproductions.