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PORTRAIT OF SOPHIA LOREN
PORTRAIT OF SOPHIA LOREN
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  • Title: PORTRAIT OF SOPHIA LOREN
  • Artist/Source: UNKNOWN
  • Medium: CONTEMPORARY DYE BASED PHOTOLITHOGRAPH
  • Date/Period: UNKNOWN
  • Dimensions: 10 X 8"
  • Origin: UNKNOWN
  • Annotations: NONE
  • Description:
  • This lot is a Dye Based Photolithograph, and is a restoration print, produced 'after' the original photograph. Rather than being a one-of-a-kind work, it is an open edition, non-commercial sheet-fed mechanical print, analagous to the process used for sheet-fed photogravures. The paper is 215 GSM, 12 MIL Matte, Light Fast and Acid Free. It is enclosed in a polypropolene, archival presentation pocket and reinforced before shipping.

  • Sofia Villani Scicolone Dame Grand Cross OMRI, known professionally as Sophia Loren, is an Italian actress. She was named by the American Film Institute as the 21st greatest female star of Classic Hollywood Cinema. She is currently the only living actress and highest-ranked living person mentioned on the list. Born Sofia Villani Scicolone on September 20, 1934 in Rome, Italy.. Sofia Loren's mother, Romilda Villani, (bearing an uncanny resemblance to Greta Garbo), had once been offered a trip to the United States to play Garbo's body double, but Romilda's mother refused to let her go. Her mother took her back to her hometown of Pozzuoli on the Bay of Naples, which has been described as "perhaps the most squalid city in Italy." Lorens father had another child with her mother but they never married.

    Raised in poverty, Sophia Loren began her film career in 1951 and came to be regarded as one of the worlds most beautiful women. Loren won the Best Actress Academy Award for the film Two Women in 1961 and an Academy Honorary Award in 1991. Although she would go on to be considered one of the most beautiful women in history, Loren's wet nurse remembered her as "the ugliest child I ever saw in my life." A quiet and reserved child, Loren grew up in extreme poverty, living with her mother and many other relatives at her grandparents' home, where she shared a bedroom with eight people. Things got worse when World War II ravaged the already struggling city of Pozzuoli. The resulting famine was so great that Loren's mother occasionally had to siphon off a cup of water from the car radiator to ration between her daughters by the spoonful. During one aerial bombardment, Loren was knocked to the ground and split open her chin, leaving a scar that has remained ever since. "little stick" by her classmates for her sickly physique, at the age of 14 Loren blossomed, seemingly overnight, from a frail child into a beautiful and voluptuous woman.

    Loren landed her first role as an extra in the 1951 film Quo Vadis. In 1957, she starred in her first Hollywood film, The Pride and the Passion, filmed in Paris and co-starring Cary Grant and Frank Sinatra. She became enmeshed in a love triangle with both Grant and a Italian film producer named Carlo Ponti. Although she had a schoolgirl's crush on Grant, Loren ultimately chose Ponti, a man the media joked was twice her age and half her height. Loren and Ponti's marriage nevertheless remains one of the rare success stories among celebrity relationships. They remained happily married until Ponti's death in 2007.

    Loren turned in the most acclaimed performance of her career in the Italian World War II film Two Women. In a film with parallels to her own childhood, she played a mother desperately trying to provide for her daughter in war-ravaged Rome. She was the first actress ever to win the award for a non-English-language film. Marriage, Italian Style (1964), for which she earned another Oscar nomination for Best Actress.

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    PORTRAIT OF SOPHIA LOREN

    Estimate $150 - $200
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    Starting Price $20
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