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Marino Marini (1901-1980)
Lot 319 THE PROPERTY OF A PRIVATE SWISS COLLECTOR

Marino Marini (1901-1980)

Personaggi del circo I

Closed3 February 2016

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GBP 158,500

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Marino Marini (1901-1980)
Personaggi del circo I
signed and dated 'MARINO 1950' (lower right)
oil, gouache, wax crayon and ink with sgraffito on prepared canvas
36 x 26 5/8 in. (91.5 x 67.5 cm.)
Painted in 1950

Erick Estorick, London, by 1958.
Mr & Mrs Kirk Douglas, Beverly Hills, by 1958; their sale, Christie's, New York, 16 May 1990, lot 311.
Private collection, Switzerland, by whom acquired at the above sale.
Anonymous sale, Sotheby's, London, 1 December 1992, lot 51.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.

Specialist note

'Since my childhood, I have observed these beings, man and horse, and they were for me a question mark. In the beginning there was a ‘harmony’ between them, but in the end, in contrast to this unity, the violent world of the machine arrives, a world which captures it in a dramatic, though no less lively and vitalizing way’.
(M. Marini in Pistoia, 1979, pp. 29-30.)