Girls in the Windows. 1960.
Chromogenic print.
Signed, dated and numbered on the reverse. From an edition of 100 copies. On Fujicolor Chrystal Archive Paper. 50 x 50.8 cm (19.6 x 20 in). Sheet: 60,7 x 63,4 cm (23,8 x 24,9 in).
The photo was shot in 1960 while the edition was printed at a later point. [AR].

• Iconic photo by the American photographer Ormond Gigli.
• The work shows 43 women in the windows of a house under renovation, and was taken spontaneously during the workers' lunch break.
• It shows models and friends of Ormond, as well as his wife and the wife of the house's manager.
• The photographer became known in the early 1950s through photographs of celebrities such as Sophia Loren and Anita Ekberg.
• "Girls in the Windows" is one of his most famous and sought-after works.

PROVENANCE: Corporate Collection Ahlers AG, Herford (since 2013).

EXHIBITION: #DepictingWomen - beauty, goddess, motherhood, bathing, soliciting, fulfilling, fragment, Foundation Ahlers Pro Arte, Herford, September 15 - December 9, 2018, cat. pp. 86 and 48 (illu.).

LITERATURE: Villa Grisebach, Berlin, auction 216, Moderne und Zeitgenössische Photographie, November 27, 2013, lot 2059.