(Cortona/Arezzo 1883–1966 Paris)
Studio per figura ( “la Ciociara”) 1918, signed G. Severini, on the reverse, two small sketches for a still life, executed with pencil, graphite on yellow paper, 16 x 14 cm, framed

Photo certificate:
Romana Severini Brunori, number 01, dated Rome 9/3/2017

Provenance:
Private Collection, Italy

Exhibition:
(travelling exhibition) Rome, Gino Severini- Un taccuino Cubo-Futurista- il rappel a l’ordre-La scena, Galleria Arco d’Alibert, 1977, cat. curated by M.Fagiolo dell’Arco and E. Coen, p. 17 with. ill.; Bologna, Galleria Trimarchi, 1978;
Cortona, Gino Severini prima e dopo l’opera, exhibition for the centenary of the artist’s birth, Palazzo Casali, November 1983/ January 1984, cat. curated by M. Fagiolo dell’Arco, p. 97, n. 7 with ill.

Literature:
Daniela Fonti, Gino Severini Catalogo ragionato, Mondadori/Daverio (ed.), Milan, 1988, p. 273, no. 311D with ill.

In his memoirs Gino Severini recalls the spring and summer of 1917 as a period of intense intellectual exchange with his friend Pablo Picasso, who had just left Italy, and was occupied with the tour of Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes. In Rome, Picasso was attracted to characters in traditional costume. Severini then, riding on the wave of fashion started in Paris by the Ballets Russes, also offered his own Cubist version of the Ciociara, distinguished by strong geometric traits.