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Giuseppe Santomaso
La Vite Viola, 1952.
Oil on canvas
Estimate:
€ 40,000 - 60,000
$ 46,400 - 69,600
Giuseppe Santomaso
1907 - 1990
La Vite Viola. 1952.
Oil on canvas.
Signed and dated in the lower left. Signed on the reverse of the canvas. 80.5 x 120.5 cm (31.6 x 47.4 in). [AW].
• Powerful combination of informal, colorful abstraction and a free, graphic style.
• In 1952, Santomaso co-founded the Italian artist group “Fronte Nuovo delle Arti” and was one of the most important protagonists of abstract art in post-war Italy.
• In 1955, 1959, and 1964, he participated in documenta I, II, and III in Kassel.
• Works by Giuseppe Santomaso are in leading museum collections, including the Art Institute of Chicago and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York.
PROVENANCE: Cavellini Collection, Bergamo.
Comm. Ezio Casamonti Collection, Florence (with the collection label on the reverse of the canvas).
Private collection, southern Germany (acquired from the above in 1983).
EXHIBITION: V Mostra Nazionale d'Arte, Pinacoteca di Alessandria, Alessandria, 1952, cat. no. 27 (with illu. on p. 10).
IV Premio Nazionale di Pittura “Golfo della Spezia,” Palazzo delle Scuole, Lerici, 1952, cat. no. 6, p. 34 (with exhibition labels on the reverse of the stretcher).
Dodici pittori italiani, Galleria Il Milione, Milan, 1953, cat. no. 28.
Pittori moderni dalla Collezione Cavellini, Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna, Rome, 1957, cat. no. 155, p. 43.
Collection Cavellini, Musée des Beaux-Arts, La Chaux-de-Fonds, 1958, cat. no. 128, p. 19.
LITERATURE: Alfieri Edizioni D'Arte (ed.), Santomaso. Catalogue raisonné. 1931-1974, Venice 1975, CR no. 205 (with illu. on plate 31, p. 63).
Nico Stringa (publ.), Laura Poletto, Elisa Prete (eds.), Giuseppe Santomaso. Catalogo ragionato, vol. 2, Turin 2017, CR no. 255 (with black-and-white illustration, p. 62, with color illustration, plate 28).
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Renato Birolli, Due esemplari della collezione del concittadino Achille Cavellini, in: Terra Nostra, July/August 1953 (with illustration).
Giovanni Marchiori, Appunti su Santomaso, in: Saletta degli Amici dell'Arte (ed.), Santomaso dalla Saletta, Modena 1955.
Lionello Venturi, Santomaso, in: Commentari, VI., II, April-June 1955, p. 135.
Carlo Ludovico Ragghianti, Pittori contemporanei, in: Sele Arte, VII, No. 38, November-December 1958, No. 85 (with ill. p. 42).
Alessio Cannistraro, Pittura contemporanea nelle collezioni private, Florence 1971, p. 478 (with illustration).
Stefania Portinari, Santomaso: l'opera grafica, in: Saggi e memorie di storia dell'arte, no. 33, (2009) 2010, pp. 496f.
Called up: December 6, 2025 - ca. 17.02 h +/- 20 min.
1907 - 1990
La Vite Viola. 1952.
Oil on canvas.
Signed and dated in the lower left. Signed on the reverse of the canvas. 80.5 x 120.5 cm (31.6 x 47.4 in). [AW].
• Powerful combination of informal, colorful abstraction and a free, graphic style.
• In 1952, Santomaso co-founded the Italian artist group “Fronte Nuovo delle Arti” and was one of the most important protagonists of abstract art in post-war Italy.
• In 1955, 1959, and 1964, he participated in documenta I, II, and III in Kassel.
• Works by Giuseppe Santomaso are in leading museum collections, including the Art Institute of Chicago and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York.
PROVENANCE: Cavellini Collection, Bergamo.
Comm. Ezio Casamonti Collection, Florence (with the collection label on the reverse of the canvas).
Private collection, southern Germany (acquired from the above in 1983).
EXHIBITION: V Mostra Nazionale d'Arte, Pinacoteca di Alessandria, Alessandria, 1952, cat. no. 27 (with illu. on p. 10).
IV Premio Nazionale di Pittura “Golfo della Spezia,” Palazzo delle Scuole, Lerici, 1952, cat. no. 6, p. 34 (with exhibition labels on the reverse of the stretcher).
Dodici pittori italiani, Galleria Il Milione, Milan, 1953, cat. no. 28.
Pittori moderni dalla Collezione Cavellini, Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna, Rome, 1957, cat. no. 155, p. 43.
Collection Cavellini, Musée des Beaux-Arts, La Chaux-de-Fonds, 1958, cat. no. 128, p. 19.
LITERATURE: Alfieri Edizioni D'Arte (ed.), Santomaso. Catalogue raisonné. 1931-1974, Venice 1975, CR no. 205 (with illu. on plate 31, p. 63).
Nico Stringa (publ.), Laura Poletto, Elisa Prete (eds.), Giuseppe Santomaso. Catalogo ragionato, vol. 2, Turin 2017, CR no. 255 (with black-and-white illustration, p. 62, with color illustration, plate 28).
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Renato Birolli, Due esemplari della collezione del concittadino Achille Cavellini, in: Terra Nostra, July/August 1953 (with illustration).
Giovanni Marchiori, Appunti su Santomaso, in: Saletta degli Amici dell'Arte (ed.), Santomaso dalla Saletta, Modena 1955.
Lionello Venturi, Santomaso, in: Commentari, VI., II, April-June 1955, p. 135.
Carlo Ludovico Ragghianti, Pittori contemporanei, in: Sele Arte, VII, No. 38, November-December 1958, No. 85 (with ill. p. 42).
Alessio Cannistraro, Pittura contemporanea nelle collezioni private, Florence 1971, p. 478 (with illustration).
Stefania Portinari, Santomaso: l'opera grafica, in: Saggi e memorie di storia dell'arte, no. 33, (2009) 2010, pp. 496f.
Called up: December 6, 2025 - ca. 17.02 h +/- 20 min.
282
Giuseppe Santomaso
La Vite Viola, 1952.
Oil on canvas
Estimate:
€ 40,000 - 60,000
$ 46,400 - 69,600
Buyer's premium, taxation and resale right compensation for Giuseppe Santomaso "La Vite Viola"
This lot can be purchased subject to differential or regular taxation, artist‘s resale right compensation is due.
Differential taxation:
Hammer price up to 1,000,000 €: herefrom 34 % premium.
The share of the hammer price exceeding 1,000,000 € is subject to a premium of 29 % and is added to the premium of the share of the hammer price up to 1,000,000 €.
The share of the hammer price exceeding 4,000,000 € is subject to a premium of 22 % and is added to the premium of the share of the hammer price up to 4,000,000 €.
The buyer's premium contains VAT, however, it is not shown.
Regular taxation:
Hammer price up to 1,000,000 €: herefrom 29 % premium.
The share of the hammer price exceeding 1,000,000 € is subject to a premium of 23% and is added to the premium of the share of the hammer price up to 1,000,000 €.
The share of the hammer price exceeding 4,000,000 € is subject to a premium of 15% and is added to the premium of the share of the hammer price up to 4,000,000 €.
The statutory VAT of currently 7 % is levied to the sum of hammer price and premium.
We kindly ask you to notify us before invoicing if you wish to be subject to regular taxation.
Calculation of artist‘s resale right compensation:
For works by living artists, or by artists who died less than 70 years ago, a artist‘s resale right compensation is levied in accordance with Section 26 UrhG:
4 % of hammer price from 400.00 euros up to 50,000 euros,
another 3 % of the hammer price from 50,000.01 to 200,000 euros,
another 1 % for the part of the sales proceeds from 200,000.01 to 350,000 euros,
another 0.5 % for the part of the sale proceeds from 350,000.01 to 500,000 euros and
another 0.25 % of the hammer price over 500,000 euros.
The maximum total of the resale right fee is EUR 12,500.
The artist‘s resale right compensation is VAT-exempt.
Differential taxation:
Hammer price up to 1,000,000 €: herefrom 34 % premium.
The share of the hammer price exceeding 1,000,000 € is subject to a premium of 29 % and is added to the premium of the share of the hammer price up to 1,000,000 €.
The share of the hammer price exceeding 4,000,000 € is subject to a premium of 22 % and is added to the premium of the share of the hammer price up to 4,000,000 €.
The buyer's premium contains VAT, however, it is not shown.
Regular taxation:
Hammer price up to 1,000,000 €: herefrom 29 % premium.
The share of the hammer price exceeding 1,000,000 € is subject to a premium of 23% and is added to the premium of the share of the hammer price up to 1,000,000 €.
The share of the hammer price exceeding 4,000,000 € is subject to a premium of 15% and is added to the premium of the share of the hammer price up to 4,000,000 €.
The statutory VAT of currently 7 % is levied to the sum of hammer price and premium.
We kindly ask you to notify us before invoicing if you wish to be subject to regular taxation.
Calculation of artist‘s resale right compensation:
For works by living artists, or by artists who died less than 70 years ago, a artist‘s resale right compensation is levied in accordance with Section 26 UrhG:
4 % of hammer price from 400.00 euros up to 50,000 euros,
another 3 % of the hammer price from 50,000.01 to 200,000 euros,
another 1 % for the part of the sales proceeds from 200,000.01 to 350,000 euros,
another 0.5 % for the part of the sale proceeds from 350,000.01 to 500,000 euros and
another 0.25 % of the hammer price over 500,000 euros.
The maximum total of the resale right fee is EUR 12,500.
The artist‘s resale right compensation is VAT-exempt.
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