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Gino Severini (1883-1966)
Lot 527

Gino Severini (1883-1966)

Study for Pulcinella con il violino

Closed5 February 2008

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GBP 36,500

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Gino Severini (1883-1966)
Study for Pulcinella con il violino
signed 'G.Severini' (lower centre)
pencil and charcoal on blue-grey paper
24½ x 19 7/8 in. (62.4 x 50.7 cm.)
Drawn circa 1921-1922

Gina Franchina-Severini, Rome.
Anonymous sale, Sotheby's, London, 9 December 1997, lot 238.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.

Specialist note

Pulcinella con il violino is a study for Severini's frescoes decorating the Salottino of Castello di Montegufoni, a Tuscan Renaissance castle near Florence, which was purchased by Sir George Sitwell in 1909 for his son, Osbert. An active member of the literary and artistic circles in London, Osbert commissioned the frescoes from Severini in April 1921. Their subject matter is mostly based on the Commedia dell'Arte, particularly popular in Britain in the 1920s, and one of whose main characters is Pulcinella.