Autograph Letter by Severini

Autograph Letter Signed by Gino Severini to  the Countess Anna Laetitia Pecci-Blunt. Rome , Avril  17th 1938 . One  page, one side. In Italian. With the original enveloppe, with marks and stamps.

Perfect conditions, with the medial folds of paper and some imperceptible aging signs on the left margin.

Letter of enquiry in which the Italian artist asks to the Countess and patron of arts Anna Laetitia Pecci Blunt the return of some artworks, exhibited at the Cometa Gallery in New York. Paintings and gouaches will be usefull for the organization of a new solo exhibition in London.

Gino Severini (Cortona, 1883 – Paris, 1966), Gino Severini is an Italian painter who knows how to fuse science, art, composition and fantasy: most of all the Futurist dynamic values with the Cubist constructive concepts. It is hard to insert Gino Severini in one single artistic movement - although he is best-known as a Futurist artist, he is also considered a  Pointillist, Cubist, Neoclassicist of “ Valori Plastici ” . After a religious crisis (between 1924-34), he abandons easel painting to focus on religious art: it is the time of big frescoes and mosaics especially for Swiss churches. In 1946, he moves to Meudon, and his style becomes semi-abstract.

The time of this letter was a period full of satisfaction and of life-long appreciation: he showed his work at major exhibitions, including the  Rome Quadrennial  (1931, 1935) and won art prizes from major institutions.