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Cristoforo Munari

Still life of a violin, musical scores, playing cards, glass bottles and biscuits

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September 25, 05:46 PM GMT

Estimate

20,000 - 30,000 EUR

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Cristoforo Munari

Reggio Emilia 1667–1720 Pisa

Still life of a violin, musical scores, playing cards, glass bottles and biscuits


oil on canvas

unframed: 97.7 x 73.7 cm.; 38½ x 29 in.

framed: 118.2 x 94.5 cm.; 46½ x 37¼ in.



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Di Segni Collection, Rome, by 1956;

With Galleria Lorenzelli, Bergamo, by 1964;

Private collection, Bergamo, by 1999;

Acquired subsequently by the present owner.

Parma, Palazzo Pilotta, Cristoforo Munari e la natura morta emiliana, 1964, no. 19;

Bordeaux, Galerie des Beaux-Arts, L'art et la musique, 30 May – 30 September 1969, no. 50;

Reggio Emilia, Palazzo Magnani, Cristoforo Munari 1667–1720. Un maestro della natura morta, 13 March – 13 June 1999, no. 12.

A. Ghidiglia Quintavalle, Cristoforo Munari e la natura morta emiliana, exh. cat., Parma 1964, p. 65, no. 19, reproduced in colour pl. 19, details reproduced in black and white pls 19a and 19b;

A. Ghidiglia Quintavalle, 'Cristoforo Munari et peinture de nature morte à Parme', in L'ŒIL: Revue D'Art Mensuelle, no. 125, May 1965, p. 18, reproduced in colour p. 12, fig. 1;

G. Martin-Mery, L'art et la musique, exh. cat., Bordeaux 1969, p. 28, no. 50, reproduced pl. 30;

J.H. van der Meer and F. Hellwig, 'Strumenti musicali in un quadro attribuito a Munari', in Antichità viva, vol. X, no. 6, November–December 1971, p. 16, reproduced fig. 8;

Collezioni private bergamasche, Bergamo 1982, vol. III, n.p., reproduced in colour pl. CCLVIII;

L. Salerno, La natura morta italiana 1560–1805, Rome 1984, p. 340, reproduced in colour fig. 120.7;

F. Baldassari, Cristoforo Munari, Milan 1999, pp. 45 and 151, no. 29, reproduced in colour;

F. Baldassari, in Cristoforo Munari 1667–1720. Un maestro della natura morta, F. Baldassari and D. Benati (eds), exh. cat., Milan 1999, p. 72, no. 12, reproduced in colour p. 73.