Lot 144
  • 144

Luigi Lucioni 1900-1988

Estimate
30,000 - 50,000 USD
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Description

  • Luigi Lucioni
  • Bread and Fruit
  • signed L. Lucioni and dated 1940, l.l.
  • oil on canvas
  • 14 by 18 in.
  • (35.6 by 45.7 cm)

Provenance

Dr. Harry Blutman, New York (the artist's doctor)
Private Collection, New York
Barbara Mathes Gallery, New York 
Richard York Gallery, New York
Sale: Christie's, New York, May 18, 2004, lot 112, illustrated in color
Acquired by the present owner at the above sale

Exhibited

New York, Associated American Artists, Luigi Lucioni, 1943, no. 7
New York, Richard York Gallery, Luigi Lucioni: Still Lifes, March-April 1991, no. 8, illustrated in color on the cover
New York, Richard York Gallery, American Still Lifes: 1815-1955, 1991-1992
Manchester, Vermont, Southern Vermont Study Center, Luigi Lucioni (1900-1988): A Twentieth-Century Renaissance Realist, 1993
Ogunquit, Maine, Ogunquit Museum of American Art, Realism in the Twentieth Century, American Painting, August-September 1997
Manchester, Vermont, Southern Vermont Art Center, Luigi Lucioni, 2000

Literature

E. A. Jewell, "Lucioni Paintings on Exhibition Here," The New York Times, April 16, 1943
New York Sun, April 16, 1943
E. A. Jewell, "Approach: A Critic's Attitude Toward His Task," The New York Times, April 18, 1943, illustrated
Richard York Gallery, An American Gallery: Volume IV, New York, 1988, no. 25, illustrated
Hilde Gabriel Lee, Taste of the States: A Food History of America, 1992, illustrated p. 13 and on the back cover

Condition

Good condition, unlined; under UV: 1 by 2 inch area of retouching above glass chalice in right background.
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