Tancredi
1927 - 1964
Senza titolo
tempera and grattage on masonite
Executed in 1954
The reverse of the support presents a composition only sketched.
(tempera e grattage su faesite
Eseguito nel 1954
Il retro del supporto presenta una composizione solo abbozzata.)
cm 91,2x49,8; inches 35.90 by 19.60
Framed: cm 92,4x51,1x2,2; inches 36.37 by 20.11 by 0.86
This work is in good overall condition. There are nails along the perimeter. There is a pinpointed hole with associated paint loss towards the upper side of the right margin. There are minor scattered paint losses along the borders. There is a scratch with a colour retouching towards the upper left corner. Under the UV lamp, retouching by the upper and lower left corners is visible, especially at the top in correspondence of a damage of the support.
(In generale, l'opera è in buone condizioni conservative. Vi sono chiodini lungo il perimetro. Vi è un foro puntiforme con una caduta di colore verso il lato superiore del margine destro. Vi sono alcune piccole cadute di colore sparse lungo i bordi. Vi è un graffio con una ripresa di colore in prossimità dell'angolo superiore sinistro. Sotto la lampada a raggi UV, sono visibili delle riprese di colore sugli angoli superiore e inferiore a sinistra, in particolare in alto in corrispondenza di un danno sul supporto.)
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Galleria Hausammann, Cortina d’Ampezzo
Studio d’arte G.R., Sacile
Setti collection, Carpi
Private collection, Feltre
Dorotheum, Contemporary Art, 1 June 2016, lot 664
Private collection, Trieste
Thence by descent to the present owner (Ivi acquisito dall'attuale proprietario).
Marisa Dalai Emiliani, Tancredi. I dipinti e gli scritti, Turin 1996, Vol. I, p. 246, n. 578; Vol. II, n.p., n. 578, illustrated
Cortina d'Ampezzo, Galleria Hausammann, Maestri contemporanei, April 1970
Cosenza, Galleria d'Arte Provinciale "Santa Chiara", La collezione d'arte contemporanea Paolo Setti: la vera pandora di tutte le virtù celesti. Le stampe d'arte del museo "Arte on", 2008–09, p. 68, illustrated