
Art Institute of Chicago
Self-Portrait
Gino Severini · 1909
Provenance
Ownership history
- Given by the artist to Aurelian-François Lugne-Poe [inscription]; by descent to Mme. Lugne-Poe; sold, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, June 22, 1945, Lugne-Poe sale, lot 57. Mme. René Donath, Paris [according to Rome 1961]. Sold by B. C. Holland Gallery, Chicago, to the Art Institute, 1969.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Rome, Palazzo Venezia, "Mostra Antologica di Gino Severini: Premio Nazionale delle Arti del Ministero della Pubblica Istruzione per l’anno 1960," May 13–June 4, 1961, p. 47, pl. IV, cat. 7.
- Rotterdam, Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, "Gino Severini," June 28–September 1, 1963, n.p., cat. 7 (ill.).
- Paris, Musée National d’Art Moderne, "Gino Severini," July–October, 1967, p. 30, cat. 117.
- New York, Wildenstein and Company, "Modern Portraits: The Self and Others," October 20–November 28, 1976, pp. 149 and 150 (ill.).
- Cortina d’Ampezzo, Galleria d’arte moderna Farsetti, "Gino Severini, Opere dal 1907 al 1959: centenario della nascita dell artista (Cortona 1883–Parigi 1966)," December 26, 1982–January 9, 1983, n.p. (ill.); traveled to Milan, Galleria d’arte moderna Farsetti, January 15, 1983–February 15, 1983.
- Florence, Pitti Palace, "Gino Severini (1883–1966)," June 25–September 25, 1983, pp. 67 (ill.), 163, and 164, cat. 13.
- The Art Institute of Chicago, "Strange Realities: The Symbolist Imagination", October 4, 2025 - January 5, 2026.
Literature
Published references
- Maria Drudi Gambillo and Teresa Fiori, Archivi del Futurismo II (Rome, 1962), p. 337, fig. 2.
- Joshua C. Taylor, “Gino Severini: A Self Portrait,” Museum Studies 2 (1967), p. 56, fig. 4.
- Filiberto Menna, Gino Severini: La vita di un pittore (Milan, 1983), n.p., fig. 4.
- Piero Pacini, Gli Autoritratti di Gino Severini (Cortona, 1986), n.p., fig. 4.
- Daniela Fonti, Gino Severini: Catalogo ragionato (Milan, 1988), p. 96 (ill.), cat. 81.
- The Art Institute of Chicago, Graphic Modernism : Selections from the Francey and Dr. Martin L. Gecht Collection at the Art Institute of Chicago, exh. cat. (Chicago, 2003), pp. x, xi and 179, fig. 4.
- Sandy Brooke, Drawing as Expression, Techniques and Concepts, 2nd ed. (Prentice Hall, Oregon State University, 2006).
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