Still Life: Barbera by Gino Severini
Art Institute of Chicago

Still Life: Barbera

Gino Severini · 1918

Provenance

Ownership history

  1. Galerie de l’Effort Moderne (Léonce Rosenberg), Paris, probably acquired directly from the artist, by 1937 [this and the following according to letter from Fernand C. Graindorge, Apr. 15, 1976, in curatorial file]; sold to Fernand C. Graindorge, Liège, Belgium, 1937 [this and the following according to object data sheet completed by Theodore Schempp, May 22, 1975, in curatorial file]; sold to Theodore Schempp, Paris, Nov. 1954 [this and the following according to letter from Saidenberg Gallery, Apr. 15, 1975, in curatorial file]; sold to Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Saidenberg, New York, Mar. 1955; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1955.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

  • Verviers, Belgium, Société des Beaux-Arts, La Peinture sous le signe d’Apollinare, October 22–November 5, 1950, p. 38, cat. 62; traveled to Gand, Belgium, Cercle Royal Artistique et Littéraire, November 11–26, 1950; and Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, December 1950.
  • Basel, Kunsthalle, Collection Fernand Graindorge, August 28–October 3, 1954, cat. 113.
  • Eindhoven, Netherlands, 1954, cat. 47.
  • Tokyo, National Museum of Modern Art, Cubism, October 2–November 14, 1976, cat. 84; traveled to Kyoto, National Museum of Modern Art, November 23–December 19, 1976.
  • Florence, Palazzo Pitti, Gino Severini, June 25–September 25, 1983, pp. 102 (ill.), 175, cat. 57.
  • Chicago, The Art Institute of Chicago, A Case for Wine, July 11—September 20, 2009, no cat.

Literature

Published references

  • Société des Beaux-Arts, La Peinture sous le signe d’Apollinare exh. cat. (Courtroi: J. Vermaut, 1950), p. 38, cat. 62, as Nature morte: Barbera.
  • Basel, Kunsthalle, Collection Fernand Graindorge exh. cat. (Kunsthalle Basel, 1954), p. 12, cat. 113, as Nature morte “Barbera.”
  • Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Art Institute of Chicago, 1961), p. 416, as Still Life “Barbara.”
  • Tokyo, National Museum of Modern Art, Cubism exh. cat. (Tokyo , 1976), pp. 27 (ill.), 107, cat. 84, as Still Life: Barbera, 1918.
  • Speyer, A. James, and Courtney Graham Donnell, Twentieth-Century European Paintings (Art Institute of Chicago, 1980), p. 69, pl. 3G7, as Still Life: Barbera, 1918.
  • Barilli, Renato, ed., Gino Severini exh. cat. (Electa Firenze, 1983), pp. 102 (ill.), 175, cat. 57, as Natura morta–Barbera.
  • Fonti, Daniela, Gino Severini: Catalogo ragionato (Milan: Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, 1988), p. 268 (ill.), fig. 303, as Nature morta: Barbera.
  • Green, Christopher, The European Avant-Gardes (London: Zwemmer, 1995), p. 465 (ill.), as Still Life Barbera, 1918.

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