Lot Essay
The sketch for Aurora is a modello for the fresco above the grand stairway fresco of the Palazzo Guidotti-Senni, Bologna. A pen and wash compositional study for Aurora was sold at Christie's, London, 30 March 1971, lot 109. The somewhat damaged fresco is still in situ in the Palazzo Guidotti-Senni which stands on the Piazza Cavour. Mimi Cazort suggests that the other modello in the present lot, an allegory of Evening, was produced as an alternative proposal to the patron, Senator Annibale Guidotto.