
Art Institute of Chicago
Collage with Box of Matches
Gino Severini · 1912–13
Provenance
Ownership history
- The artist, to at least 1956 [Degenhart 1956]. New Gallery, New York, by 1961 [Hartford, Conn. 1961]. Mr. and Mrs. E. V. Thaw, Alpine, NJ., by 1962 [Moskowitz 1962]. Joseph Tucker, St. Louis [invoice]. Sold by the Allan Frumkin Gallery, Chicago, to the Art Institute, 1974.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- London, Marlborough Gallery, "Severini," April 1913, hors cat.
- Naples, Galleria Futurista, "The First Futurist Exhibition," May-June 1914, cat. 30.
- Berlin, Der Strum, 1915.
- Hartford, Conn., Wadsworth Atheneum, "Salute to Italy," April 21-May 28, 1961, p. 41.
- New York, Museum of Modern Art, "Futurism," May 31–September 5, 1961, hors. cat; traveled to The Detroit Institute of Arts, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
- The Art Institute of Chicago, "Great Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago: The Harold Joachim Years 1958-1983," July 24-September 30, 1985, pp. 182-183, cat. 84 (ill.), cat. by Martha Tedeschi.
- The David and Alfred Smart Gallery, The University of Chicago, "Multiple Perspectives: Cubism in Chicago Collections," October 6-December 2, 1991.
- New Haven, Conn., Yale University Art Gallery, "Severini futurista: 1912–1917," October 18, 1995–January 7, 1996, pp. 75, 76 (ill.), and 77 (ill.), cat. 8, fig. 24; traveled to Fort Worth, Tex., Kimbell Art Museum, February 11–April 7, 1996.
Literature
Published references
- “Showing a Match-Box Picture Stuck On: ‘Still Life,’ by Severini-Puzzle, Disentangle the Objects,” The Sketch (April 16, 1913), no. 24 (ill.).
- Bernhard Degenhart, Italienische Zeichner der Gegenwart (Berlin, 1956), no. 8 (ill.).
- Ira Moskowitz, Great Drawings of All Time, 4 (New York, 1962) n.p., no. 1034 (ill.).
- Georges Borgeaud, Témoinages: 50 ans de réflexion (Rome, 1963), p. 25 (ill.).
- Una Johnson, Drawings of the Masters: Twentieth Century Drawings I (New York, 1964), p. 51, no. 19 (ill.).
- Harold Joachim, "A Still Life by Gino Severini," Bulletin of The Art Institute of Chicago 69:6 (November-December 1975), pp. 6-7 (ill.).
- Daniela Fonti, Gino Severini: Catalogo Ragionato (Milan, 1988), p. 148, no. 142 (ill.).
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