
Art Institute of Chicago
Self-Portrait with Straw Boater
Gino Severini · 1912
Provenance
Ownership history
- Van Assendelft-Hoost, Utrecht, Holland, to c. 1925 [letter of May 26, 1966 from Rafael Fernandez in the curatorial file]. Sold by B. C. Holland Gallery, Chicago, to the Art Institute, 1965.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Berlin, Der Strum, "Futuristen," 1913, cat. 22.
- The Art Institute of Chicago, "A Quarter Century of Collecting: Drawings Given to The Art Institute of Chicago, 1944-1970 by Margaret Day Blake," April 28-June 7, 1970, n.p., cat. 49 (ill.).
- Urbana-Champaign, Ill., Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, "Drawings from the Collections of The Art Institute of Chicago," April 23–May 14, 1972.
- Palm Beach, FL., Society of the Four Arts, "Drawings and Prints from The Art Institute of Chicago," January 5–27, 1974, n.p., cat. 43.
- New York, Wildenstein Galleries, "Modern Portraits: The Self and Others," October 20–November 28, 1976, pp. 149, 150 (ill.), and 198, cat. 114.
- Winnipeg, Canada, Winnipeg Art Gallery, "1912: The Break Up of Tradition," August 7–October 4, 1987, pp. 206 and 207 (ill.).
- Chicago, The David and Alfred Smart Gallery, 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. 70, 71 (ill.), and 72, cat. 5; traveled to Fort Worth, Tex., Kimbell Art Museum, February 11–April 7, 1996.
- The Art Institute of Chicago, "Modern and Contemporary Works on Paper," March 24-September 13, 2009, no cat.
Literature
Published references
- Friedrich-Markus Huebner, Moderne Kunst in den Privatsammlungen Europas: Holland (Leipzig, 1921), n.p., pl. 84.
- Joshua Taylor, "Gino Severini: A Self-Portrait," Museum Studies 2 (1967), pp. 50, 55, and 60, fig. 1.
- Douglas Cooper, The Cubist Epoch, exh. cat. (New York, 1970), pp. 167 and 310, cat. 300, pl. 174.
- Jean Clay, Modern Art, 1890–1918 (New York, 1978), pp. 156–57, pl. 156.
- Piero Pacini, Gino Severini: Opere dal 1907–al 1959, exh. cat. (Galleria d’Arte Moderna Farsetti, 1982), n.p. (ill.).
- Piero Pacini, Gli Autoritratti di Gino Severini (Cortona, 1986), n.p., fig. 12.
- Daniela Fonti, Gino Severini: Catalogo ragionato (Milan, 1988), p. 124 (ill.), cat. 103A.
- 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. 5.
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