LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

38.15 in. (96.90 cm.) (height) by 50.24 in. (127.60 cm.) (width)

Condition:

in a simple moulded giltwood frame

Exhibited:

London, The Arcade Gallery, Painters of the Fantastic and the Bizarre, October-November 1949, no. 1. Sarasota, John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, The Fantastic Visions of Monsù Desiderio, 1950, no. 16, pl. 21.

Literature:

A. Scharf, 'Francesco Desiderio', The Burlington Magazine, XCII, January 1950, p. 22. Dr. F. Sluys, Monsù Desiderio, Paris, 1961, p. 90, no. 64. M.R. Nappi, François de Nomé e Didier Barra, Milan, 1991, p. 294, no. D48.

Provenance:

With The Arcade Gallery, London.