(Cortona/Arezzo 1883–1966 Paris)
Le cantatrici villane, c. 1958, triptych, sketch for the scenography of the opera “La cantatrici villane”, by Valentino Fioravanti, Paris, Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, 1 March 1959,
left: Una casa, monogram G. S. lower right, tempera on paper, 19 x 16 cm
center: Campagna, signed: lower right: G. Severini, tempera on paper, 19 x 30 cm
right: Casa di Rosa, monogram G. S. lower right, tempera on paper, 19 x 13 cm, the triptych is framed inside a single frame

Photo certificate:
Romana Severini Brunori, three separate certificates, one for each subject, with the archive numbers 02/2008–03/2008–04/2008
Daniele Fonti, Rome, 2008

The work will be published in the forthcoming supplement of the Catalogo Ragionato of the works by Gino Severini, currently being prepared.

Provenance:
Family of the artist, Rome; Private Collection, Italy
Christie’s Milan, 26/11/2008,
Galleria d’Arte Bosi, Rome (with written certificate)
there acquired by the present owner
European Private Collection

Exhibited:
(travelling exhibition) Baden Baden, Das Bühnenbild 1945–1964, Staatliche Kunsthalle, June/August 1964 (label on the reverse); Zurich, Kunstgewerbemuseum
Rome, Un taccuino Cubo-Futurista-Il rappel a l’ordre-La scena, Arco d’Alibert, 1978, cat. curated by Maurizio Fagiolo and Esther Coen
Bologna, Galleria Trimarchi, 1977;
Turin, Galleria Martano, 1978

Note:
Venice, XXXII Biennale Internazionale d’Arte, 1964, no. 376 (label on the reverse). Among the documents of the archivio Severini, there is no trace of this exhibition in Venice.

Photo certificate:
Romana Severini Brunori, three separate certificates, one for each subject, with the archive numbers 02/2008–03/2008–04/2008
Daniele Fonti, Rome, 2008

The work will be published in the forthcoming supplement of the Catalogo Ragionato of the works by Gino Severini, currently being prepared.

Provenance:
Family of the artist, Rome; Private Collection, Italy
Christie’s Milan, 26/11/2008,
Galleria d’Arte Bosi, Rome (with written certificate)
there acquired by the present owner
European Private Collection

Exhibited:

(Itinerary exhibition) Baden Baden, Das Bühnenbild 1945–1964, Staatliche Kunsthalle, June/August 1964 (label on the reverse); Zurich, Kunstgewerbemuseum
Rome, Un taccuino Cubo-Futurista-Il rappel a l’ordre-La scena, Arco d’Alibert, 1978, cat. curated by Maurizio Fagiolo and Esther Coen
Bologna, Galleria Trimarchi, 1977;
Turin, Galleria Martano, 1978

Note:
Venice, XXXII Biennale Internazionale d’Arte, 1964, no. 376 (label on the reverse). Among the documents of the archivio Severini, there is no trace of this exhibition in Venice.