MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY ART

PIETRO CONSAGRA

Mazara del Vallo 1920 - Milano 2005

Piana n. 1, 1966-1994

Bronzo, cm 105 x 78 x 4 cm (base esclusa)

Firmata e numerata sulla base

Esemplare 5/6

Autentica su fotografia dell'Archivio Pietro Consagra, n° 66-94SB011C5

Provenienza:

Marlborough Gallery, Roma

MAURO REGGIANI

Nonantola 1897 - Milano 1980

Senza titolo

Bronzo, cm 118 x 60 x 65

Firmata e numerata sulla base

Esemplare 1/9

FAUSTO PIRANDELLO

Roma 1899 - 1975

Donna seduta, anni '50

Olio su tavola, cm 103 x 68,5

Firmato in basso a sinistra

Si ringrazia l'Archivio Pirandello per aver confermato verbalmente l'autenticità dell'opera

PABLO PICASSO

Malaga 1881 - Mougins 1973

Bouquet, 1955

Ceramica smaltata in policromia, cm 35 x 29,5

Datato sulla tesa a destra; marchio ed etichetta 'Madoura' sul retro

Edizione non numerata di 450 esemplari

Bibliografia:

A.Raimé, Picasso. Catalogue of the edited ceramic works 1947-1971, Madoura, 1988, ill. n. 254, p. 134

AMEDEO MODIGLIANI

Livorno 1884 - Parigi 1920

La Marseillaise, 1913-14

Matita su carta, cm 53 x 41

Firmato in basso a destra

Provenienza:

Galleria del Milione, Milano

Collezione privata, Milano

Esposizioni:

Mostra di Modigliani. Associazione fra gli amatori e i cultori delle arti figurative, aprile ; maggio 1946, Milano, ill. cat. n. 24

Work of Modigliani and Soutine, 31 gennaio ; 18 marzo 1951, Cleveland Museum of Art

Modigliani paintings drawings sculpture, 10 aprile ; 10 giugno 1951, Museum of Modern Art, New York, cit. cat. p. 53

Bibliografia:

A.Ceroni, Amedeo Modigliani. Peintre. Suivi des 'souvenirs' de Lunia Czechowska, Milano, 1958, ill. p. 15 e cit. p. 70

J.Lanthemann, Modigliani 1884 ; 1920. Catalogue Raisonné, 1970, ill. p. 323 e cit. n. 653, p. 144

The artwork has the label of the 'Galleria del Milione' on the verso and is registered in the archives of the same gallery with the number 2071. It is interesting to note that is indicated the location of via Brera 21 in Milan. We know in fact that the gallery was housed there from 1930, the year of its foundation, to 1943, the year the building was destroyed by an incendiary bomb. It is therefore very likely that Modigliani's drawing was acquired by the owner's family in the 1930s, certainly before 1943 and plausibly before the Second World War. Moreover, in the catalogue of the 'Modigliani exhibition' of 1946, promoted by the 'Associazione fra gli amatori e i cultori delle arti figurative', the work is described as belonging to the 'Coll. dott. ..., Milan'. A few years later, the drawing was lent to an important exhibition in 1951, organised by the Museum of Modern Art in New York in collaboration with the Cleveland Museum of Art (the related labels are still conserved on the back) and remembered in the catalogue as 'Lent by ..., Milan'. It was the 1950s that marked a turning point in the appreciation of Modigliani's artistic work. The 'Galleria del Milione' in Italy and the monumental retrospective signed by the MoMA in the United States recognised the artist's international success that he had not achieved until then. The drawing was published seven years later, together with eight others, as an example of Modigliani's modus operandi, by Ambrogio Ceroni in the 1958 catalogue of paintings. In 1970 it was also included in the catalogue raisonné compiled by Joseph Lanthemann.

GIANNI DOVA

Roma 1925 - Pisa 1991

Composizione, 1951-52

Olio e smalto su tela, cm 59,5 x 180

Firmato e datato in alto a sinistra

Bibliografia:

E.Crispolti, R.S.Gnagnetti, Dova. Catalogo ragionato delle opere, vol. II/1, Torino, 2021, ill. n. NS195142, p. 78

CARLA ACCARDI

Trapani 1924 - Roma 2014

Arancio verde, 1964

Tempera alla caseina su tela, cm 54 x 73

Firmato in basso a sinistra; firmato, datato e dedicato sul retro

Autentica su fotografia dell'Archivio Accardi, n° 56/11

ANTONIO SANFILIPPO

Partanna (Tp) 1923 - 1980

Marrone punti, 1969

Tempera su tela, cm 70 x 100

Firmato e datato sul retro

Provenienza:

Collezione privata, Milano

Bibliografia:

G.Appella, F.D'Amico, Antonio Sanfilippo. Catalogo generale dei dipinti dal 1942 al 1977, Roma, 2007, n. 844, p. 291

MARIO SCHIFANO

Homs 1934 - Roma 1998

Senza titolo, 1978-80

Smalto e pastello su tela, cm 210,5 x 100

Firmato in basso al centro; firmato sul retro

Autentica su fotografia dell'Archivio Mario Schifano, n° 05748230930

ROBERT RAUSCHENBERG

Port Arthur 1925 - Captiva Island 2008

Confrontations, 1969

Tecnica mista e collage su masonite, cm 85,5 x 64 x 0,3

Firmato e datato in basso a destra; firmato, datato, titolato e dedicato sul retro

Provenienza:

Donato nel dicembre del 1986 direttamente dall'artista all'attuale proprietario

Robert Rauschenberg, a Texan artist born in 1925, studied as a young man at Black Mountain College and arrived in New York City in 1949. He initially worked together with his great friend Jasper Johns as a window dresser for Tiffany. Soon the two friends decided to devote themselves exclusively to painting. In the late 1950s they both joined Leo Castelli's gallery. Their new approach to painting is so successful that in 1964 Rauschenberg is awarded with the Grand Prize of the Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale. From chaotic Manhattan he chose to buy a house with a studio on Captiva Island, Florida, in 1968. From 1970 it became his permanent residence.

The painting that became an environment, with Rothko and the Abstract Expressionists, was populated in the artworks of Johns and Rauschenberg by the common objects that, unlike Pop Art, in Rauschenberg never have a direct relationship to mass consumption. The painting is conceived horizontally, as if it were a desk full of objects arranged in no logical order or, as Leo Steinberg said, a platform of a printing press. Therefore, a horizontal plane on which information is randomly deposited. The technique of collage and pictorial brushstrokes, allow the meanings of that same information to be subverted. Hence there is a creative relationship that develops horizontally through newspapers, photographs and objects of everyday life.

GIULIO TURCATO

Mantova 1912 - Roma 1995

Colature contrapposte, inizio anni '70

Olio e acrilico su tela, cm 70 x 100

Firmato in basso a destra

Autentica su fotografia dell'Archivio Giulio Turcato, n° 422616312419 TANGO

GIULIO TURCATO

Mantova 1912 - Roma 1995

Forme fugaci, inizio anni '70

Acrilico su tela, cm 70 x 100

Firmato sul retro

Autentica su fotografia dell'Archivio Giulio Turcato, n° 76B1126998 SS