Signora al Pianoforte

Details

Giovanni Boldini (Italian, 1842-1931)
Signora al Pianoforte
signed 'Boldini' (lower left)
oil on panel
6½ x 4 in. (16.5 x 10.2 cm.)

Provenance

Mr. Peter Resnick, Boston.
Anonymous sale, Sotheby's, New York, 26 May 1983, lot 33.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.

Literature

P. Dini and F. Dini, Giovanni Boldini, Catalogo Ragionato, Turin, 2004, vol. III, pp. 168-169, no. 294, illustrated.
P. Dini, E. Piceni, D. Durbè (eds.), Annuari di Economia dell'arte. Il Valore dei dipinti dell'800, vol. 2, Turin, 1984, p. 62.

Exhibited

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, on extended loan from 1971.

Special notice

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Lot Essay

Boldini frequently painted small-scale works of ladies playing the piano, in either contemporary domestic or imagined 18th-century interiors. The present work most likely depicts one of the players at the Folies-Bergère in Paris, and is part of a significant body of the artist's work depicting French café society and night life.

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