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Artist |
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Gino Severini |
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Title |
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Danseuse
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Medium |
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oil on canvas |
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Size |
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39.4 x 31.9 in. / 100 x 81 cm. |
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Year |
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1915 - |
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Description |
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Painted in 1915.
signed G. Severini (lower right), signed Gino Severini, titled and inscribed 4 on the reverse
oil on canvas |
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Misc. |
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Signed, Inscribed |
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Sale Of |
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Sotheby's London: Wednesday, June 25, 2008
[Lot 21]
Impressionist and Modern Art Evening Sale
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Estimate |
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*
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Sold For |
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*
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Provenance |
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On consignment with Alfred Stieglitz, New York (sent by Severini for the 1917 exhibition)
John Quinn, New York (acquired from the above circa 1917)
Sale: American Art Galleries, New York, The Renowned Collection of Modern and Ultra-Modern Art formed by the late John Quinn, 9th-12th February 1927, lot 259
J. B. Neumann, New York (purchased at the above sale)
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (acquired from the above in 1944 and until at least 1988)
Galerie Beyeler, Basel
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 1989
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Exhibition |
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Paris, Galerie Boutet de Monvel, 1ère exposition futuriste d'art plastique de la guerre et d'autre ouvres antérieures (Gino Severini), 1916, no. 14 or 15
New York, Gallery '291' of the Photo Secession (Alfred Stieglitz), Drawings, Pastels, Watercolors and Oils of Severini, 1917, no. 4
(possibly) New York, Art Center, Memorial Exhibition of Representative Works Selected from the John Quinn Collection, 1926, no. 44
Ohio, The Toledo Museum of Art, Contemporary Movements in European Painting, 1938, no. 98, illustrated in the catalogue
Seattle, Art Museum, 2500 Years of Italian Art and Civilization, 1957, no. 225, illustrated in the catalogue
New York, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Elements of Modern Painting, 1961-62
Tulsa, Oklahoma, Philbrook Art Center and travelling in the USA, Elements of Modern Art II, 1964-65, no. 30
Richmond, Virginia, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Masterpieces from the Collection of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1966-67
New York, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Acquisitions of the 1930s and 1940s, 1968, no. 44.943, illustrated in the catalogue
Columbus, Ohio, The Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts, Paintings from the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1968-69, illustrated in the catalogue
Boston, Institute of Contemporary Art & Toledo, Museum of Art, Art and Dance, 1982-83, no. 51
Venice, The Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Gino Severini, La Danza 1909-1916, 2001, no. 44, illustrated in colour in the catalogue
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Literature |
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Charles Henry Caffin, 'Severini's Work seen at "291"', in New York American, 12th March 1917, p. 6
John Quinn 1870-1925. Collection of Paintings, Water Colors, Drawings & Sculpture, New York, 1926, illustrated p. 81
Gino Severini (exhibition catalogue), Musée National d'Art Moderne, Paris, 1967, no. 31, illustrated
Joshua Taylor, 'Futurism: The Avant-Garde as a Way of Life', in Art News Annual, XXXIV, 1968, illustrated p. 87
Joan M. Lukach, 'Severini's 1917 Exhibition at Stieglitz's "291"', in Burlington Magazine, CXIII, no. 817, London, April 1971, fig. 40, illustrated p. 202
Angelica Zander Rudenstine, The Guggenheim Museum Collection, Paintings 1880-1945, New York, 1976, vol. II, no. 231, illustrated p. 657
Daniela Fonti, Gino Severini, Catalogo ragionato, Milan, 1988, no. 248, illustrated p. 204
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