Lot 212
  • 212

GINO SEVERINI | Gendarmes Pontificaux

Estimate
15,000 - 20,000 GBP
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Description

  • Gino Severini
  • Gendarmes Pontificaux
  • signed G. Severini (lower right)
  • tempera on paper
  • sheet: 43.5 by 34cm., 17 1/4 by 13 1/2 in.
  • image: 29 by 24cm., 11 1/2 by 9 1/2 in.
  • Executed in 1936 as an illustration for the album La Cité du Vatican, Rome, 1936.

Provenance

John Winter Collection
Private Collection (by descent from the above)
Acquired from the above by the present owner

Literature

La Cité du Vatican, Rome, 1936, no. 23 (Garde Suisse) & no. 17 (Le Musée Etrusque-Grégorien)
Francesco Meloni, Gino Severini. Tutta l'opera grafica, Reggio Emilia, 1982, no. 220 (Garde Suisse) no. 222 (Le Musée Etrusque-Grégorien), illustrated p. 196

Condition

Executed on cream wove paper, not laid down and attached to the mount with slips in all four corners. There are minor faint spots of foxing to the edges of the sheet, not visible when framed. The colours are fresh and this work is in overall very good condition.
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Catalogue Note

This work will be included in the additional volume to the Catalogo Ragionato dell'Opera pittorica di Gino Severini, currently being prepared by Daniela Fonti and Romana Severini Brunori.