
Modern Perspectives: The Collection of Rolf & Margit Weinberg
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
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