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Domenico Gnoli (1933-1970)
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Domenico Gnoli (1933-1970)

Presentazione dei personaggi (Presentation of the Characters)

Fermé12 February 2016

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GBP 68,500

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Domenico Gnoli (1933-1970)
Presentazione dei personaggi (Presentation of the Characters)
signed and dated 'D. Gnoli 1960' (lower right)
watercolour, ink and graphite on cardboard
28 3/8 x 44in. (72 x 112cm.)
Executed in 1960

Private Collection (acquired directly from the artist in the 1960s).
Thence by descent to the present owner.

Note du spécialiste

'If you tried to find Terramafiusa on today's maps, you couldn't find it. [There] lived Orestes, Prince of Terramafiusa, who learned how to smile at the age of twenty and has been smiling ever since. Mine will be the story of his smile and of the people who contributed to it. For this purpose, I have assembled Orestes with the other main characters on an old oak, on which they shall remain quietly seated until their personal introductions are completed'
(D. Gnoli, Orestes or the Art of Smiling, New York 1961, p. 7).