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GINO SEVERINI (1883-1966)
Danse de l’ours
signed and dated ‘G. Severini 1913’ (lower right)
oil on paper laid down on canvas
14 3/8 x 10 5/8 in. (36.5 x 27 cm.)
Painted in 1913-1914
Provenance
Yves de Solminihac, Paris, a gift from the artist in 1954-1955.
(Possibly) Mr & Mrs Sidney E. Cohn, New York, by 1961.
Marlborough Fine Art, London.
Galleria Internazionale, Milan.
Private collection, Italy, circa 1975-1976, by whom acquired from the above, and thence by descent; sale, Christie's, London, 4 October 2018, lot 127.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
Literature
D. Fonti, Gino Severini Catalogo ragionato, Milan, 1988, no. 202, p. 178 (illustrated; with incorrect medium).
Exhibited
(Possibly) New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Futurism, May - September 1961, no. 109, p. 147 (titled 'Dancers' and dated '1912'; with incorrect medium); this exhibition later travelled to Detroit, Detroit Institute of Arts, May - September 1961; and Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Museum, January - February 1962.
Turin, Mole Antonelliana, Ricostruzione futurista dell'universo, June - October 1980, p. 24 (illustrated; with incorrect medium).
Como, Fondazione Antonio Ratti, Arte svelata. Collezionismo privato a Como dall’Ottocento a oggi, September - October 1987, no. 66, p. 101 (illustrated p. 80; dated '1913' and with incorrect medium).
Venice, Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Gino Severini The Dance 1909–1916, May - October 2001, no. 39, p. 144 (illustrated p. 145; with incorrect medium).
Rome, Museo del Corso, Dal futurismo all’astrattismo, April - July 2002, p. 62 (illustrated p. 63; with incorrect medium).
Traversetolo, Fondazione Magnani Rocca, Gino Severini L’emozione e la regola, March - July 2016, no. 31, p. 168 (illustrated p. 101; with incorrect medium).
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