Lot No. 1193


Lorenzo Viani


Lorenzo Viani - Modern Art

(Viareggio 1882–1936 Ostia)
Amanti (Anarchici), signed and dated Viani 1910, oil on cardboard, 68 x 97 cm, framed, (PP)

Provenance:
the heirs of Viani, Lido di Camaiore
Galleria La Piramide, Lucca, no. 12
Galleria La Navicella, Vareggio (verso stamp)
Collection Renato Tassi, Florence (1962)
Galleria Farsetti, Prato (verso stamp and inv. no. 2428)
Collection Benetti, Viareggio
Private Collection, Italy

Exhibitions:
Milan, Esposizione Personale delle opere del Pittore Lorenzo Viani, Palazzo delle Aste, 30 October – 7 November 1915, exh. cat. with foreword by L. Bistolfi, page 14, no. 24 with ill.; Florence, Viani Oggi. I Viani della Raccolta Tassi, Accademia delle Arti del Disegno, November 1962, exh. cat. ill. no. 12, pages 8 and 31 (curated by A. Parronchi);
Viareggio, Lorenzo Viani-Rosai-Marcucci, Galleria La Navicella, 1965;
Prato, 100 Opere di Lorenzo Viani, Galleria d’Arte Farsetti, May 1967, exh. cat., plate XLVIII with ill. (text by Mario Luzi and Michelangelo Masciotta);
Bologna, Mostra antologica di Lorenzo Viani (1882–1936), Galleria d’Arte Moderna, 22 December 1973 – 27 January 1974, no. 56 (label on the reverse);
Viareggio, Omaggio a Lorenzo Viani, Galleria La Navicella, 23 June - 8 July 1977;
Viareggio, Mostra del Centenario di Lorenzo Viani, Palazzo Paolina, 20 November 1982 – 20 January 1983, exh. cat. no. 21 (curated by P. C. Santini) (label on the reverse);
Florence/Vareggio, Lorenzo Viani. La Collezione Bargellini e altre testimonianze, Sala delle Colonne, Ente Cassa di Risparmio di Firenze, 25 September - 30 November 2009/Galleria di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, 12 November - 13 December 2009, exh. cat. page 56, no. 8 (curated by R. Viale)

Literature:
F. Bellonzi, Arte Moderna, Tendenze e personalità ed altri contributi a una storiografia non tendenziosa, Edizioni De Luca, Rome, no. 56, plate XXXIX;
A. Lippi, Oggi Lorenzo Viani, Massarosa, Edizioni del Testimone, Lucca, 1970, page 111, plate XV with ill.;
I. Pardellini Signorini, Lorenzo Viani, Centro Promozione e Stampa, Florence, 1978, pages 33 and 85, no. 64 with ill.

“Viani’s humanitarian painting (…) begins on his return from Paris in 1910. His cartoon of 1910 bears testimony to this with its depiction of an anarchist couple, frozen in a state of death-like aggression.”
(A. Parronchi, exerpt from the exhibition catalogue, Viani Oggi. I Viani della Raccolta Tassi, 1962)

Specialist: Mag. Patricia Pálffy Mag. Patricia Pálffy
+43-1-515 60-386

patricia.palffy@dorotheum.at

22.05.2014 - 19:00

Realized price: **
EUR 28,360.-
Estimate:
EUR 25,000.- to EUR 35,000.-

Lorenzo Viani


(Viareggio 1882–1936 Ostia)
Amanti (Anarchici), signed and dated Viani 1910, oil on cardboard, 68 x 97 cm, framed, (PP)

Provenance:
the heirs of Viani, Lido di Camaiore
Galleria La Piramide, Lucca, no. 12
Galleria La Navicella, Vareggio (verso stamp)
Collection Renato Tassi, Florence (1962)
Galleria Farsetti, Prato (verso stamp and inv. no. 2428)
Collection Benetti, Viareggio
Private Collection, Italy

Exhibitions:
Milan, Esposizione Personale delle opere del Pittore Lorenzo Viani, Palazzo delle Aste, 30 October – 7 November 1915, exh. cat. with foreword by L. Bistolfi, page 14, no. 24 with ill.; Florence, Viani Oggi. I Viani della Raccolta Tassi, Accademia delle Arti del Disegno, November 1962, exh. cat. ill. no. 12, pages 8 and 31 (curated by A. Parronchi);
Viareggio, Lorenzo Viani-Rosai-Marcucci, Galleria La Navicella, 1965;
Prato, 100 Opere di Lorenzo Viani, Galleria d’Arte Farsetti, May 1967, exh. cat., plate XLVIII with ill. (text by Mario Luzi and Michelangelo Masciotta);
Bologna, Mostra antologica di Lorenzo Viani (1882–1936), Galleria d’Arte Moderna, 22 December 1973 – 27 January 1974, no. 56 (label on the reverse);
Viareggio, Omaggio a Lorenzo Viani, Galleria La Navicella, 23 June - 8 July 1977;
Viareggio, Mostra del Centenario di Lorenzo Viani, Palazzo Paolina, 20 November 1982 – 20 January 1983, exh. cat. no. 21 (curated by P. C. Santini) (label on the reverse);
Florence/Vareggio, Lorenzo Viani. La Collezione Bargellini e altre testimonianze, Sala delle Colonne, Ente Cassa di Risparmio di Firenze, 25 September - 30 November 2009/Galleria di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, 12 November - 13 December 2009, exh. cat. page 56, no. 8 (curated by R. Viale)

Literature:
F. Bellonzi, Arte Moderna, Tendenze e personalità ed altri contributi a una storiografia non tendenziosa, Edizioni De Luca, Rome, no. 56, plate XXXIX;
A. Lippi, Oggi Lorenzo Viani, Massarosa, Edizioni del Testimone, Lucca, 1970, page 111, plate XV with ill.;
I. Pardellini Signorini, Lorenzo Viani, Centro Promozione e Stampa, Florence, 1978, pages 33 and 85, no. 64 with ill.

“Viani’s humanitarian painting (…) begins on his return from Paris in 1910. His cartoon of 1910 bears testimony to this with its depiction of an anarchist couple, frozen in a state of death-like aggression.”
(A. Parronchi, exerpt from the exhibition catalogue, Viani Oggi. I Viani della Raccolta Tassi, 1962)

Specialist: Mag. Patricia Pálffy Mag. Patricia Pálffy
+43-1-515 60-386

patricia.palffy@dorotheum.at


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Auction: Modern Art
Auction type: Saleroom auction
Date: 22.05.2014 - 19:00
Location: Vienna | Palais Dorotheum
Exhibition: 10.05. - 22.05.2014


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