Presentazione dei personaggi (Presentation of the Characters)

Details

Domenico Gnoli (1933-1970)
Presentazione dei personaggi (Presentation of the Characters)
signed and dated 'D. Gnoli 1960' (lower right)
watercolour, ink and graphite on cardboard
28 3/8 x 44in. (72 x 112cm.)
Executed in 1960

Provenance

Private Collection (acquired directly from the artist in the 1960s).
Thence by descent to the present owner.

Literature

D. Gnoli, Orestes or the Art of Smiling, New York 1961 (illustrated in colour, pp. 8-9).

Exhibited

London, Hazlitt Gallery, Domenico Gnoli, 1962, no. 2.

Special Notice

Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent.

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Lot Essay

'If you tried to find Terramafiusa on today's maps, you couldn't find it. [There] lived Orestes, Prince of Terramafiusa, who learned how to smile at the age of twenty and has been smiling ever since. Mine will be the story of his smile and of the people who contributed to it. For this purpose, I have assembled Orestes with the other main characters on an old oak, on which they shall remain quietly seated until their personal introductions are completed'
(D. Gnoli, Orestes or the Art of Smiling, New York 1961, p. 7).

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