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Gustave Muranyi

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Gustave Muranyi
Portrait of Guglielmo Marconi
oil on canvas, signed G. Muranyi, in gilt frame -- 60 x 47in.(152 x 119cm.); and a portrait of Beatrice O'Brien Marconi Marignoli, Marquise di Montecorona, oil on canvas, signed and dated Carlo Romagnoli, Roma MCMLIV, in gilt frame -- 44 x 37in.(112 x 94cm.) (2)

Provenance

Guglielmo Marconi (1874-1937) thence by descent.

Exhibited

The Smithsonian Institution/National Portrait Gallery, Washington D.C. "On The Air: Pioneers of American Broadcasting", 7 October 1988 - 2 January 1989 (label on back). Illustrated in the exhibition catalogue, page 26.

Lot Essay

A similar head-and-shoulders portrait of Marconi by Muranyi and dated 1914, is in the possession of GEC-Marconi Ltd and was exhibited at the Panama-Pacific Exhibition, San Francisco in 1915. The two were probably executed at the same time, one for the Marconi company and one for Marconi personally.

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