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GINO SEVERINI(1883-1966)Studio per 'Nature morte avec guitare'
25 March 2021, 16:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street£10,000 - £15,000
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GINO SEVERINI (1883-1966)
Studio per 'Nature morte avec guitare'
dated 'janvier-février 1919-' (upper right)
charcoal and chalk on paper
69.6 x 90.2cm (27 3/8 x 35 1/2in).
Executed in January-February 1919
dated 'janvier-février 1919-' (upper right)
charcoal and chalk on paper
69.6 x 90.2cm (27 3/8 x 35 1/2in).
Executed in January-February 1919
Footnotes
Provenance
The artist's estate, Rome.
Acquired by the previous owner (June 1978); their sale, Christie's, London, 28 February 2018, lot 352.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
Literature
D. Fonti, Gino Severini, Catalogo ragionato, Milan, 1988, no. 355A (illustrated p. 293).
The present work is a studied preparatory drawing for the painting of the same name, currently housed in the permanent collection of the Rijksmseum Kröller-Müller in Otterlo. This drawing shows the careful methodology used by the artist to distinguish the differing planes of his composition.
