Self-Portrait

Prints and Drawings

1916

Gino Severini
Italian, 1883-1966

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Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Gino Severini
Title: Self-Portrait
Place: Italy (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1916
Medium: Charcoal and brown chalk with stumping and erasing on ivory laid paper
Inscriptions: Signed recto, lower center, in graphite: "G. Severini"
Dimensions: 53.3 × 40.1 cm (21 × 15 13/16 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of the Gecht Family
Reference Number: 2015.276
Copyright: © 2018 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

Piero Pacini, Gli Autoritratte di Gino Severini (Cortona, 1986), n.p., fig. 17 (ill.).
Daniela Fonti, Gino Severini, Catalogo ragionato (Milan, 1988), p. 247, no. 259 (ill.).

Pasadena Art Museum, “The New Renaissance in Italy: Twentieth Century Italian Art,” October 7–November 16, 1958, n.p., cat. 96.
The Phoenix Art Museum, “The Collection of Margaret Mallory and Ala Story,” February-March 1962, n.p., cat. 88 (ill.).
London, Gimpel Fils Gallery, 1965, cat. 45.
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, “Two Collections: Margaret Mallory, Ala Story,” January 15–February 20, 1966, n.p., cat. 51; traveled to San Francisco, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, March 5–April 10, 1966.
New Haven, Conn., Yale University Art Gallery, “Severini futurista: 1912-1917,” October 20, 1995–January 7, 1996, pp. frontispiece (ill.), 120 (ill.), 121, back cover (ill.), cat. 35; also travelled to Fort Worth, Tex., Kimbell Art Museum, February 11–April 7, 1996.
London, Hayward Gallery (organizer), “Gino Severini: From Futurism to Classicism 1910–20,” pp. cover (ill.), 14, 69, cat. 25 (ill.); traveled to London, Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art, October 6, 1999–January 9, 2000.
The Art Institute of Chicago, “Graphic Modernism: Selections from the Francey and Dr. Martin L. Gecht Collection at The Art Institute of Chicago,” November 15, 2003–January 11, 2004, pp. x, 146–47 (ill.), 179, cat. 120.
Leavitt, Thomas, The New Renaissance in Italy: Twentieth Century Italian Art exh. cat. (Pasadena Aart Museum, 1958), n.p., cat. 96, as Self Portrait–Étude de Formes, 1915.
Hinkhouse, Dr. F. M. and S. Lane Faison, Paintings Sculpture and Drawings from the Collection of Margaret Mallory and Ala Story exh. cat. (Phoenix Art Museum, 1962), n.p., cat. 88 (ill.), as Self Portrait, 1915.
Gimpel Fils Gallery, exh. cat. (London, 1965), cat. 45.
Leavitt, Thomas J., Two Collections: Margaret Mallory, Ala Story exh. cat. (Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 1966), n.p., cat. 51, as Self Portrait, 1915.
Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, Important Drawings and Watercolors: Public Auction sale cat. (Wednesday, December 13, 1967 at 8:00 pm), pp. 44–45 (ill.), lot 57.
Hanson, Anne Coffin, Severini futurista: 1912–1917 exh. cat. (New Haven: Yale University Art Gallery, 1995), pp. frontispiece (ill.), 120 (ill.), 121, back cover (ill.), cat. 35.
Fraquelli, Simonetta and Christopher Green, Gino Severini: From Futurism to Classicism 1910–20 exh. cat. (London: Hayward Gallery Publishing, 1999), pp. cover (ill.), 14, 69, cat. 25 (ill.).
The Art Institute of Chicago, Graphic Modernism: Selections from the Francey and Dr. Martin L. Gecht Collection at the Art Institute of Chicago, Nov. 15, 2003 – Jan. 11, 2004, pp. 146–147, cat. 120 (ill.).

Rex Evans (died 1969), Los Angeles, by 1958 [Pasadena 1958]. Ala Story (née Anne Maria Heyszl von Heyszenau) (died 1972), Santa Barbara, Calif., by 1962–at least 1966 [Phoenix 1962; Santa Barbara 1966]. Sold, Parke-Bernet Galleries Inc., New York, December 13, 1967, lot 57. Sold by B.C. Holland, Chicago, to Dr. and Mrs. Martin Gecht, 1975.

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