Motivo dalmata

Details

Zoran Antonio Music (1909-2005)
Motivo dalmata
signed and dated 'MUSIC 1948' (lower center); signed and dated again and titled 'MUSIC Motivo dalmata 1948' (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
23 x 30 in. (58.4 x 76.2 cm.)
Painted in 1948

Provenance

L'Obelisco, Galleria d'Arte, Rome (1948).
Acquired from the above by the late owners, March 1959.

Literature

M. Potter et al., The David and Peggy Rockefeller Collection: European Works of Art, New York, 1984, vol. I, pp. 324-325, no. 143 (illustrated, p. 324).

Exhibited

Rome, L'Obelisco, Galleria d'Arte, Music, 1948, no. 12.

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Lot Essay

"In 1959 Peggy went with me on a business trip to Italy. In Rome we had been told about a gallery called L'Obelisco which carries paintings by contemporary Italians. We bought several paintings including ones by Caruso, Campigli, Music, Porzano, and Vespignani."
-David Rockefeller

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