Giocolieri e cavallo

Details

Marino Marini (1901-1980)
Giocolieri e cavallo
signed and dated 'Marino 1952' (lower right)
oil, gouache, brush and India ink on paper
24 3/8 x 17 in. (61.8 x 42.9 cm.)
Executed in 1952

Provenance

Private collection, Toronto, by whom acquired before 1970, and thence by descent; sale, Skinner, Boston, 27 January 2017, lot 435.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.

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Lot Essay

The Marino Marini Foundation has confirmed the authenticity of this work.

'Painting, for me, depends on colour, which takes me further and further away from real form. The emotion that colours awake in me, that is to say the contrast of one colour with another, or their relationship, stimulates my imagination much more than does the materialization of the human figure if I have to rely on pictorial means alone.’
(Marino Marini, 'Thoughts of Marino Marini’, pp. 5-11, G. di San Lazzaro, ed., Homage to Marino Marini, New York, 1974, p. 6.)

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