Il Cavaliere Azzurro (The Blue Rider)

Details

Marino Marini (1901-1980)
Il Cavaliere Azzurro (The Blue Rider)
signed 'MARINO 1952' (lower right), titled 'Cavaliere azzurro' (upper left), signed again 'MARINO 1952' and 'Marini Marino Milan' (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
78¾ x 72¾in. (200 x 185cm.)
Executed in 1952

Provenance

The Artist, until 1961.
Acquired directly from the Artist by the father of the present owner in March 1961.

Literature

E. Steingräber and L. Papi, Marino Marini, Paintings, Turin, 1987, no. 265 (illustrated p.133).
E. Trier and H. Lederer, Marino Marini, 1961 (illustrated in colour pl. IX).
H. Read, P. Waldberg, G. di San Lazzaro, Marino Marini, Complete Works, New York, 1970, no. 196 (illustrated p. 420).

Exhibited

Venice, XXVI Biennale Internazionale d'Arte, 1952, no. 718.
Sao Paolo, Museo d'Arte Moderna, II Biennale, 1953-54.
Zurich, Kunsthaus, Marino Marini, 1962, no. 187.
Rome, Palazzo Venezia, Mostra di Marino Marini, March-June 1966, no. 96 (illustrated in colour pl. XII).

Lot Essay

Giovanni Cardente's description of Il Cavaliere Azzurro in his catalogue to the major 1966 Rome exhibition highlights the importance of the present painting: "E' tra i più intensi e felici dipinti dell'Artista, caricao di una drammatica tensione che le sottolineature cromatische accentuano anche in senso dinamico' (op. cit., p. 44.)

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