LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

25.63 in. (65.10 cm.) (height) by 21.34 in. (54.20 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed Magnelli and dated 45 (lower right); signed Magnelli, inscribed Paris and dated 1945 on the reverse

Exhibited:

Stockholm, Nationalmuseum, Fransk Konst 1938-1948, 1949, no. 63 Berlin, Maison Française,  Französische Malerei und Plastik 1938-1948, 1950, no. 60 Zurich, Helmhaus, Konkrete Kunst, 50 Jahre Entwicklung, 1960, no. 144, illustrated in the catalogue Zurich, Kunsthaus, Alberto Magnelli, 1963, no. 85 Florence, Palazzo Strozzi, La Strozzina, Alberto Magnelli, 1963, no. 81 Zurich, Kunsthaus, Spektrum der Farbe, 1967, no. 163 Paris, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Magnelli, 1968, no. 72

Literature:

Art d'Aujourd'hui, 1949, no. 5, illustrated n.p.; Julien Alvard & Roger Van Gindertaël, Temoignages pour l'art abstrait 1952, Paris, 1952, illustrated p. 196; Michel Seuphor, Dictionnaire de la peinture abstraite, Paris, 1957, illustrated in color p. 214; Murillo Mendes, Magnelli, Rome, 1964, illustrated pl. XLIX; Anne Maisonnier, Alberto Magnelli, l'œuvre peint, Paris, 1975, no. 556, illustrated p. 129

Provenance:

R. Jucker, Milan; Dr Max H. Welti, Zurich; Galerie Schlégl, Zurich; Acquired from the above by the late owner in 1982