Paolo Roversi

unique Polaroid Polacolor print, signed, titled, dated, and annotated in pencil on the reverse, framed, Buhl Collection and Guggenheim Museum exhibition labels on the reverse, 1980

Guillaume Gallozzi Fine Art, New York, 1995

New York, Thread Waxing Space, Collection in Context: Selected Contemporary Photographs of Hands from the Collection of Henry M. Buhl, September - October 1996, and 8 other national and international venues through 1999 (see Appendix 1)

New York, Guggenheim Museum, Speaking with Hands: Photographs from The Buhl Collection, June - September 2004, and 4 other international venues through 2007 (see Appendix 1)

Marianne Courville, Collection in Context: Selected Contemporary Photographs of Hands from the Collection of Henry M. Buhl (New York, 1996), pl. 41 (this print)

Jennifer Blessing, Speaking with Hands: Photographs from The Buhl Collection (Guggenheim Foundation, 2004), pp. 64 and 244 (this print)

This unique Polaroid Polacolor print is in generally excellent condition. On the reverse of the print, the following is written in pencil: 'Parigi - Studio Daguerre - 1980' and 'Polaroid Originale 20x25 cm.' Also on the reverse of the print along the left, right, and lower edges are remnants of yellowed adhesive.
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