Lot 11 
11
Lorenzo Viani
Dame mit Chrysantheme, 1911.
Oil on cardboard
Estimate:
€ 40,000 / $ 42,800 Sold:
€ 189,100 / $ 202,337 (incl. surcharge)
Dame mit Chrysantheme. 1911.
Oil on cardboard.
Cardellini Signorini 63. Signed and dated lower right. 95 x 68,7 cm (37,4 x 27 in).
One of the artist's impressive portraits, his self portrait, which was made around the same time, is in the collection of the Galleria d`arte moderna, Florence (cf. Cardellini Signorini 59). The depicted person presumably is the famous actress Sarah Bernhardt, who Viani had already portraited in tempera in 1909. (Cf. Cardellini Signorini 41).
This work is the first work by the representative of Italian Expressionism to be offered on the German aucvtion market (source: www.artnet.de).
PROVENANCE: Collection Falsetti, Modena.
Private collection.
EXHIBITION: (Selection)
Mostra di opere di Lorenzo Viani, Galleria di Roma, Rome, December 1937, cat. no. 7.
Motivi d'arte contemporanea, Galleria Narciso, Turin, 8 February - 8 March, 1966, cat. no. 84 (with label on verso).
100 opere di artisti toscani, Galleria Falsetti, Prato, 20 May - 18 June, 1972, illu. 115 (with gallery stamp on verso).
Mostra antologica di Lorenzo Viani, Galleria d'arte moderna, Museo Civico, Bologna 22 December, 1973 - 27 January, 1974, plate no. 8 (with label on verso).
Du futurisme au spatalisme, Musée Rath, Geneva, 6 October, 1977 - 15 January, 1978 (with label on frame).
Viani vive, Mostra antologica di Lorenzo Viani, Fondazione Viani, Viareggio, 8 July - 20 August, 1978, cat. no. 142, with illu. (with label on rear of frame as well as stamp of Fondazione).
Prima dell' Avanguardia - da Fattori a Modigliani, Aosta 1985/86, Musée des Augustins, Tolouse 1986, no. 124 (with label on rear of frame).
Lorenzo Viani, Palazzo Paolina, Viareggio, 23 December, 1986 - 15 January 1987 (with label on frame).
Da Van Gogh a Schiele, Palazzo Forti, Verona, 7 July - 10 October, 1989, p. 137 (with label on frame).
Tolouse Lautrec - un artista moderno, Palazzo Vecchio, Florence, October 1995, cat. no. 149, pp. 270f. (Label on stretcher).
Lorenzo Viani. Un maestro del novecento europeo, Palazzo Mediceo, Seravezza, 8 July - 24 October, 2000, cat. no. 23, with illu. p. 121.
LITERATURE: (Selection)
Fortunato Bellonzi, Lorenzo Viani, in: Pittori toscani del Novecento, Florence 1978, p. 289.
R. Monti, Torre del Lago. "Il Club della Bohème". Lorenzo Viani, in: I postmacchiaioli, Rome 1991, p. 90, illu. 129.
Giovanna Uzzani, L'arte italiana del Novecento, Vicenza 1991, p. 88.
[CB/KH].
Oil on cardboard.
Cardellini Signorini 63. Signed and dated lower right. 95 x 68,7 cm (37,4 x 27 in).
One of the artist's impressive portraits, his self portrait, which was made around the same time, is in the collection of the Galleria d`arte moderna, Florence (cf. Cardellini Signorini 59). The depicted person presumably is the famous actress Sarah Bernhardt, who Viani had already portraited in tempera in 1909. (Cf. Cardellini Signorini 41).
This work is the first work by the representative of Italian Expressionism to be offered on the German aucvtion market (source: www.artnet.de).
PROVENANCE: Collection Falsetti, Modena.
Private collection.
EXHIBITION: (Selection)
Mostra di opere di Lorenzo Viani, Galleria di Roma, Rome, December 1937, cat. no. 7.
Motivi d'arte contemporanea, Galleria Narciso, Turin, 8 February - 8 March, 1966, cat. no. 84 (with label on verso).
100 opere di artisti toscani, Galleria Falsetti, Prato, 20 May - 18 June, 1972, illu. 115 (with gallery stamp on verso).
Mostra antologica di Lorenzo Viani, Galleria d'arte moderna, Museo Civico, Bologna 22 December, 1973 - 27 January, 1974, plate no. 8 (with label on verso).
Du futurisme au spatalisme, Musée Rath, Geneva, 6 October, 1977 - 15 January, 1978 (with label on frame).
Viani vive, Mostra antologica di Lorenzo Viani, Fondazione Viani, Viareggio, 8 July - 20 August, 1978, cat. no. 142, with illu. (with label on rear of frame as well as stamp of Fondazione).
Prima dell' Avanguardia - da Fattori a Modigliani, Aosta 1985/86, Musée des Augustins, Tolouse 1986, no. 124 (with label on rear of frame).
Lorenzo Viani, Palazzo Paolina, Viareggio, 23 December, 1986 - 15 January 1987 (with label on frame).
Da Van Gogh a Schiele, Palazzo Forti, Verona, 7 July - 10 October, 1989, p. 137 (with label on frame).
Tolouse Lautrec - un artista moderno, Palazzo Vecchio, Florence, October 1995, cat. no. 149, pp. 270f. (Label on stretcher).
Lorenzo Viani. Un maestro del novecento europeo, Palazzo Mediceo, Seravezza, 8 July - 24 October, 2000, cat. no. 23, with illu. p. 121.
LITERATURE: (Selection)
Fortunato Bellonzi, Lorenzo Viani, in: Pittori toscani del Novecento, Florence 1978, p. 289.
R. Monti, Torre del Lago. "Il Club della Bohème". Lorenzo Viani, in: I postmacchiaioli, Rome 1991, p. 90, illu. 129.
Giovanna Uzzani, L'arte italiana del Novecento, Vicenza 1991, p. 88.
[CB/KH].
11
Lorenzo Viani
Dame mit Chrysantheme, 1911.
Oil on cardboard
Estimate:
€ 40,000 / $ 42,800 Sold:
€ 189,100 / $ 202,337 (incl. surcharge)