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Giovanni Boldini

Portrait of Countess Zichy

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May 25, 06:44 PM GMT

Estimate

1,500,000 - 2,500,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Giovanni Boldini

Italian

1842 - 1931

Portrait of Countess Zichy


signed and dated Boldini/ 1905 (lower right)

oil on canvas

canvas: 86½ by 47 in.; 219.7 by 119.3 cm

framed: 99½ by 59½ in.; 252.7 by 151.1 cm

Baron Maurice de Rothschild (acquired directly from the artist)
Sale: Christie's, New York, 1 November 1995, lot 13
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner
Emilia Cardona, Boldini Parisien d'Italie, Milan 1952, pp. 131-32, illustrated, pl. 32
Dario Cecchi, Boldini, Turin 1962, pp. 206-10, illustrated
Carlo Ragghianti and Ettore Camesasca, L'opera completa di Boldini, Milan 1970, p. 120, no. 395, illustrated
Guido Sari, Boldini a Parigi, Alghero 1980, p. 65
Sigfrido Bartolini, Giovanni Boldini, un macchiaiolo a Collegigliato, Florence 1981, p. 249, illustrated
Patrick Mauriès, Boldini, Milan 1989, p. 102, 104, illustrated
Giovanni Piazza, Boldini, Milan 1989, p. 305
Ettore Spalletti, Jeunesse de Boldini et l'art toscan, Paris 1991, p. 39
Carlo Lega, Giovanni Boldini - L'uomo, il pittore e i rapporti con i famigliari, Ferrara, p. 201, illustrated
Tiziano Panconi, Giovanni Boldini. L'uomo e la pittura, Pisa 1998, no. 1298, p. 214
Bianca Doria, Giovanni Boldini Catalogo generale dagli archivi Boldini, Milan 2000, no. 487, illustrated
Tiziano Panconi, Giovanni Boldini, L'opera completa, Florence 2002, pp. 467-68, illustrated
Piero Dini and Francesca Dini, Giovanni Boldini 1842-1931. Catalogo ragionato, Turin, London, Venice 2002, Vol. I, p. 201, Vol. II, p. 182, Vol. IV, no. 883, illustrated
Barbara Guidi, Boldini a Parigi: ritratto di un pittore attraverso le lettere, Ferrara 2015, pp. 382-83
Paris, Salon, 1906, no. 132
New York, Wildenstein & Co., Loan Exhibition: Paintings by Boldini 1845-1931, 20 March - 8 April 1933, no. 17