19th Century European Paintings including Spanish Painting, 1850-1930

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Lot 241
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Giovanni Segantini Italian, 1858-1899

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Description

  • Giovanni Segantini
  • Due donne in pelliccia (Two women in fur coats)
  • charcoal on paper
  • 60 by 39cm., 23 1/2 by 15 1/2 in. (image size)

Provenance

Alberto Grubicy (until 1910)
Sale: Kunstauktion Lepke, Berlin, 1910
Max and Fanny Steinthal (presumably acquired at the above sale)
Seized by the Third Reich after their deaths
In possession of Max and Fanny Steinthal's son-in-law (until 1950)
Impounded by the East German authorities in 1950
Gemäldegalerie Dresden (by 1950)
Restituted to the heirs of Max and Fanny Steinthal in 2004

Exhibited

Milano, Galleria Grubicy, Mostra collettiva Segantini, Previati, 1906
Paris, Galerie Grubicy, Exposition des peintres divisionnistes italiens, 1910
Berlin, Jüdisches Museum, Max Steinthal: Ein Bankier und seine Bilder, 2004 (illustrated in the catalogue)

Literature

Franz Servaes, Giovanni Segantini: Sein Leben und Sein Werk, Vienna, 1902
Annie-Paule Quinsac, Segantini, Milan, 1982, vol. II, p. 541, no. 643, illustrated

Catalogue Note

Executed circa 1894-99.