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Modern Perspectives: The Collection of Rolf & Margit Weinberg

Giovanni Segantini

La Culla Vuota (The Empty Cradle)

Auction Closed

May 14, 06:49 PM GMT

Estimate

15,000 - 20,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Modern Perspectives: The Collection of Rolf & Margit Weinberg

Giovanni Segantini

1858 - 1899


La Culla Vuota (The Empty Cradle)

signed Segantini (lower right); signed with the artist’s monogram (lower left) 

charcoal on paper

25 ½ by 16 ¾ in.

64.8 by 42.5 cm.

Executed circa 1896.

Giovanni B. Torelli (acquired by 1900)

Alberto Grubicy, Milan (acquired by 1910)

Kunstauktion Lepke, Berlin, Giovanni Segantini Versteigerung von 38 Gemälden und Zeichnungen, Auflösung seiner Galerie, 15 November 1910, lot 6 (consigned by the above)

Schmersenz Collection, Monaco (acquired at the above sale)

Max and Fanny Steinthal, Berlin

Seized in situ by the German Reich, 1941

Seized by the German Democratic Republic, 1952

Deposited at Staatliche Gemäldegalerie, Dresden

Restituted to the heirs of Max and Fanny Steinthal in 2004

Kunsthandel Schlichte Bergen, Amsterdam

Acquired from the above in 2006 by the present owner

Milan, Palazzo della Permanente, Giovanni Segantini, Memorial Exhibition, 1899

(probably), Milan, Galleria Grubicy, Mostre collettive Segantini e Previati, 1906

Berlin, Jüdisches Museum, Max Steinthal: Ein Bankier und seine Bilder, 2004, n.n., p. 56, illustrated

Lorenzo Benapiani, “Giovanni Segantini in Memoriam,” Emporium, vol. XI, Bergamo, 1900, no. 61, p. 9, illustrated

Franz Servaes, Giovanni Segantini: Sein Leben und Sein Werk, Vienna, 1902, p. 17

“La vendita delle opere di Segantini,” Corriere della Sera, vol. 35, Milan, 16 November 1910, no. 318

Hans Zbinden, Giovanni Segantini: Leben und Werk, Bern, 1951, p. 59, illustrated

Annie-Paule Quinsac, Segantini, vol. II, Milan, 1982, no. 541, p. 447, illustrated