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Monte di Tremezzo from Fiumelatte, Lake Como, Italy from the portfolio Permutations on the Picturesque

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© Estate of John Pfahl

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John Pfahl

American, 1939-2020

Monte di Tremezzo from Fiumelatte, Lake Como, Italy from the portfolio Permutations on the Picturesque, 1996 (printed 1997)

Iris print on Wattman paper

Edition: 3/12

sheet: 21 3/4 x 30 1/4 inches (55.24 x 76.83 cm)

Collection Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York

Charles Clifton Fund, 1997

P1997:19.17

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Inscriptions

inscription / front, lower left / Monte di Tremezzo from Fiumelatte, Lake Como, Italy
date / front, lower right / 1996/1997
signature (print) / front, lower center / © John Pfahl
edition notation / front, lower center / 3/12

Provenance

from the artist to Nina Freudenheim, Buffalo, NY;
sold to the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, November 24, 1997

Class

Photographs
Digital prints

Work Type

Iris print
Color print (photograph)

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