Lot 414
  • 414

Gino Severini

Estimate
80,000 - 120,000 USD
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Description

  • Gino Severini
  • Les Musiciens Napolitains
  • Signed G. Severini (lower right)
  • Oil on canvas mounted on panel
  • 25 3/4 by 18 1/8 in.
  • 65.5 by 46 cm

Provenance

Galerie l'Effort Moderne (Léonce Rosenberg), Paris
Private Collection, Ohio (acquired from the above on March 24, 1925)
Thence by descent

Exhibited

Cleveland, Woman's City Club, 1928

Literature

Daniela Fonti, Gino Severini, Catalogo ragionato, Milan, 1988, no. 418, illustrated p. 365

Condition

On canvas mounted on panel. The panel is sound. Surface is slightly dirty and there are a few surface scratches near the male figure's right knee. Minor frame abrasion along bottom edge. Under UV light a few tiny pindots of inpainting fluoresce at extreme upper left and lower left corners and an uneven varnish fluoresces in places but no other inpainting is apparent. This work is in generally very good condition.
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