Lot 1146
1146
A.G. Rizzoli (1896-1981)
PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF BONNIE GROSSMAN, THE AMES GALLERY
A.G. Rizzoli (1896-1981)

Margaret E. Griffin Symbolically Sketched / Palazzo Pianissimo, 1939

Details
A.G. Rizzoli (1896-1981)
Margaret E. Griffin Symbolically Sketched / Palazzo Pianissimo, 1939
signed and dated Requested by A.G. Rizzoli/ ATE Patron 1939 lower right
ink on paper
24 x 35 5/8 in.
Literature
Jo Farb Hernandez, John Beardsley and Roger Cardinal, A.G. Rizzoli: Architect of Magnificent Visions (Harry N. Abrams, Inc. in association with the San Diego Museum of Art, 1997), pp. 104-105.
Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art, Unreal Realms (Intuit, 2017), ill.
Exhibited
San Diego Museum of Art; Atlanta, High Museum of Art; New York, Museum of American Folk Art; and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, A.G. Rizzoli: Architect of Magnificent Visions, 22 March - 18 May 1997 (San Diego), 6 September - 29 November 1997 (Atlanta), 10 January - 8 March 1998 (New York), 28 March - 24 May 1998 (San Francisco).
Chicago, Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art, Unreal Realms, 20 January - 26 March 2017.

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Lot Essay

In his writings, Rizzoli noted that his portrait of Margaret E. Griffin "is a structure erected soundly on terra-firma, glowing with grace within, enclosed by granite severity on the outside" (Bonnie Grossman, email correspondence, 7 December 2018).
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