Lot 420
  • 420

Marino Marini

Estimate
25,000 - 35,000 USD
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Description

  • Marino Marini
  • Cavallo e cavaliere (Horse and Rider)
  • Signed Marino (upper left)
  • Brush and ink on paper
  • 13 1/2 by 10 3/8 in.
  • 34.2 by 26.3 cm

Provenance

Martha Jackson Gallery, New York
Private Collection, Montreal (acquired from the above on November 6, 1959)
Thence by descent

Exhibited

New York, Martha Jackson Gallery, Forty-nine Drawings of Marino Marini, 1959, no. 26

Literature

Josef Paul Hodin, "Marino Marini: Man and Horse, Man and Woman," in The Studio, vol. 167, March 1964, illustrated p. 94

Condition

Executed on buff-colored wove paper. The verso of the sheet bears a printed image of a girl by another hand. Artist pinholes at all four corners. The left edge is deckled. Some creases on the verso of the sheet are visible on the recto, most noticeably a vertical three-inch crease extending from bottom edge near lower right corner which has some minor associated pigment loss in the crease; the creasing is also noticeable under the artist's signature though there are not corresponding pigment losses. Half-inch tear at center of top edge. Remnants from a prior mounting along top edge on verso and notations in Italian and English on the verso. This work is in very good condition.
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