
Art Institute of Chicago
Still Life (Centrifugal Expansion of Colors)
Gino Severini · 1916
Provenance
Ownership history
- The artist; Alfred Stieglitz (1864-1946), 1916 [Lukach 1971]; by descent to his estate, the Alfred Stieglitz Collection, New York, July 13, 1946 [Georgia O'Keefe executor]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, Nov. 3, 1949.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- New York, Gallery of the Photo Secession (Gallery 291), Severini, Mar. 6–17, 1917, cat. 10, as Nature morte (expansion centrifuge de couleurs).
- New York, An American Place, Beginnings and Landmarks: ‘291’ 1905–1917, Oct. 27–Dec. 27, 1937, cat. 67, as Nature Morte, about 1915.
- Philadelphia Museum of Art, History of an American, Alfred Stieglitz: ‘291’ and after: Selections from the Stieglitz Collection, Summer 1944, cat. 113, as Nature Mort.
- New York, Museum of Modern Art, Alfred Stieglitz: His Collection, June 10–Aug. 31, 1947, no cat., checklist no. 105, as Nature Morte, 1917.
- Art Institute of Chicago, Alfred Stieglitz: His Photographs and his Collection, Feb. 2–29, 1948, no cat.
- New Haven, Connecticut, Yale University Art Gallery, Severini futurista: 1912–1917, Oct. 20, 1995–Jan. 7, 1996, cat. 36; Fort Worth, TX, Kimbell Art Museum, Feb. 11–Apr. 7, 1996, as Still Life: Centrifugal Expansion of Colors, 1916.
- Fort Worth, Kimbell Art Museum, The Age of Picasso and Matisse: Modern Masters from the Art Institute of Chicago, Oct. 6, 2013–Feb. 16, 2014, no cat. no.
Literature
Published references
- Alfred Stieglitz, Severini, exh. cat. (New York: Gallery of the Photo Secession, 1917), n.p., cat. 10, as Nature morte (expansion centrifuge de couleurs).
- Dorothy Norman, Beginnings and Landmarks: ‘291’ 1905–1917, exh. cat. (New York: An American Place, 1937), n.p., cat. 67, as Nature Morte, about 1915.
- Henry Clifford and Carl Zigrosser, History of an American, Alfred Stieglitz: ‘291’ and after, exh. cat. (Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1944), 15, cat. 113, as Nature Mort.
- Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1961), 416, as Still Life with Picture.
- Joan M. Lukach, “Severini’s 1917 Exhibition at Stieglitz’s ‘291’,” Burlington Magazine 113 (1971), 197, 200, 206–207, figs. 31–2, 44 (ill.), as Nature Morte (expansion centrifuge de couleurs).
- A. James Speyer and Courtney Graham Donnell, Twentieth Century European Paintings (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1980), 69, cat. 3G6, as Still Life with Picture.
- Daniela Fonti, Gino Severini, Catalogo ragionato (Milan: Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, 1988), 248 (ill.), cat. 260, as Nature Morte (Expansion centrifuge de couleurs).
- Anne Coffin Hanson, Severini futurista: 1912–1917 exh. cat. (New Haven: Yale University Art Gallery, 1995), 121–23 (ill.), cat. 36, as Still Life: Centrifugal Expansion of Colors, 1916.
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