Study for Pulcinella con il violino

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Gino Severini (1883-1966)
Study for Pulcinella con il violino
signed 'G.Severini' (lower centre)
pencil and charcoal on blue-grey paper
24½ x 19 7/8 in. (62.4 x 50.7 cm.)
Drawn circa 1921-1922

Provenance

Gina Franchina-Severini, Rome.
Anonymous sale, Sotheby's, London, 9 December 1997, lot 238.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.

Literature

D. Fonti, Gino Severini, Catalogo ragionato, Milan, 1988, no. 390E (illustrated p. 354).

Exhibited

Rome, Galleria Giulia, Gino Severini 'Entre les deux guerres' 1919-1939, 1980, p. 59 (illustrated).
Cortona, Palazzo Casali, Gino Severini, prima e dopo l'opera, November 1983 - January 1984, no. 8 (illustrated p. 110).
Alessandria, Palazzo Cuttica, Gino Severini dal 1916 al 1936, 1987, no. 84 (illustrated p. 110).

Special notice

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Lot Essay

Pulcinella con il violino is a study for Severini's frescoes decorating the Salottino of Castello di Montegufoni, a Tuscan Renaissance castle near Florence, which was purchased by Sir George Sitwell in 1909 for his son, Osbert. An active member of the literary and artistic circles in London, Osbert commissioned the frescoes from Severini in April 1921. Their subject matter is mostly based on the Commedia dell'Arte, particularly popular in Britain in the 1920s, and one of whose main characters is Pulcinella.

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