Bread and Fruit

Details

Luigi Lucioni (1900-1988)
Bread and Fruit
signed and dated 'L. Lucioni 1940' (lower left)
oil on canvas
14 x 18¼ in. (35.6 x 46.4 cm.)

Provenance

Dr. Harry Blutman, New York, the artist's doctor.
Private collection, New York.

Literature

E.A. Jewell, "Lucioni Paintings on Exhibition Here," The New York Times, April 16, 1943.
New York Sun, April 16, 1943.
E.A. Jewell, "Approach: A Critic's Attitude Toward His Task," The New York Times, April 18, 1943, illustrated.
Richard York Gallery, An American Gallery: Volume IV, New York, 1988, no. 25, illustrated.
H.G. Lee, Taste of the States: A Food History of America, 1992, p. 13 and back cover, illustrated.

Exhibited

New York, Associated American Artists, Luigi Lucioni, 1943, no. 7.
New York, Richard York Gallery, Luigi Lucioni: Still Lifes, 1991, no. 8.
New York, Richard York Gallery, American Still Lifes: 1815-1955, 1991-92.
Manchester, Vermont, Southern Vermont Art Center, Luigi Lucioni (1900-1988): A Twentieth-Century Renaissance Realist, 1993.
Ogunquit, Maine, Ogunquit Museum of American Art, Realism in 20th Century American Painting, 1997.
Manchester, Vermont, Southern Vermont Art Center, Luigi Lucioni, 2000.

Lot Essay

The artist called this still life "one of my best paintings." (letter from L. Lucioni to Richard T. York, 3 March 1987, unpublished) Indeed, it was mentioned in three reviews of Lucioni's 1943 exhibition. The New York Sun wrote that "perhaps his still-life subjects are the most appealing and the most triumphantly accomplished in preparation: such, for instance, as Blue and Ivory, Flower Patterns, [and] Bread and Fruit."

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