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GIOVANNI BOLDINI (ITALIAN 1842-1931)
An Elegant Lady
1871
oil on panel
20 x 13.5 cm (7 7/8 x 5 1/4 in.)
signed and dated lower right
PROVENANCE
Collection of Angel Roverano, Paris-Nice, no. 296 (label on verso);
Purchased directly from the Roverano family by the current owner
The authenticity of this painting has been confirmed by Professor Tiziano Panconi, Archive Boldini.
LOT NOTES
According to Tiziano Panconi, this work undoubtedly belongs to Boldini's oeuvre and had been created during artist s first French period. From the earliest years of his career, Giovanni Boldini showed a remarkable talent as a portrait painter, which helped him to obtain numerous commissions during his trip to London in 1869. A high demand for his portraiture assigned the artist to reside episodically in London for the next five years. Two years earlier, during his visit to Paris for the Exposition Universelle in 1867, Giovanni Boldini was greatly influenced by the works and personalities of Manet, Courbet and Degas, with whom he established fast friendships. The city and the people captivated the artist, so he moved there permanently in October of 1871. The present work was painted during the period when Boldini decided to end his residency in London and to settle down in Paris, the city that he considered the cultural capital of Europe. Many Parisian dealers, including Adolphe Goupil, soon commissioned numerous small-scale works of Empire scenes and pictures of elegantly dressed women that they later sold with great success. Since then, Boldini became one of the most popular painters of high society in Paris.
The present painting is from the collection of Angel Roverano, a wealthy Argentinian emigre who lived in Europe, mostly between Paris and Nice. He spent a fortune buying exceptional works of art at the Salon, acquiring only the quality masterpieces of his time by taking the names seen at the Museum of Luxembourg as an exemplar. Being a kindhearted philanthropist, he donated most of his precious acquisitions to the museums between 1906 and 1910. By giving a Ernesto de la Carcova painting to the Argentinian National Academy of Fine Arts (ANBA) in 1906, he helped to establish the collection of the Museum of Fine Art in Buenos Aires. The Roverano Collection was comprised of works by Galofre y Gimenez, Santiago Rusinol, Jean Leon Gerome, Domenico Morelli, Antonio Mancini, Auguste Rodin, and other important painters.
oil on panel
20 x 13.5 cm (7 7/8 x 5 1/4 in.)
signed and dated lower right
PROVENANCE
Collection of Angel Roverano, Paris-Nice, no. 296 (label on verso);
Purchased directly from the Roverano family by the current owner
The authenticity of this painting has been confirmed by Professor Tiziano Panconi, Archive Boldini.
LOT NOTES
According to Tiziano Panconi, this work undoubtedly belongs to Boldini's oeuvre and had been created during artist s first French period. From the earliest years of his career, Giovanni Boldini showed a remarkable talent as a portrait painter, which helped him to obtain numerous commissions during his trip to London in 1869. A high demand for his portraiture assigned the artist to reside episodically in London for the next five years. Two years earlier, during his visit to Paris for the Exposition Universelle in 1867, Giovanni Boldini was greatly influenced by the works and personalities of Manet, Courbet and Degas, with whom he established fast friendships. The city and the people captivated the artist, so he moved there permanently in October of 1871. The present work was painted during the period when Boldini decided to end his residency in London and to settle down in Paris, the city that he considered the cultural capital of Europe. Many Parisian dealers, including Adolphe Goupil, soon commissioned numerous small-scale works of Empire scenes and pictures of elegantly dressed women that they later sold with great success. Since then, Boldini became one of the most popular painters of high society in Paris.
The present painting is from the collection of Angel Roverano, a wealthy Argentinian emigre who lived in Europe, mostly between Paris and Nice. He spent a fortune buying exceptional works of art at the Salon, acquiring only the quality masterpieces of his time by taking the names seen at the Museum of Luxembourg as an exemplar. Being a kindhearted philanthropist, he donated most of his precious acquisitions to the museums between 1906 and 1910. By giving a Ernesto de la Carcova painting to the Argentinian National Academy of Fine Arts (ANBA) in 1906, he helped to establish the collection of the Museum of Fine Art in Buenos Aires. The Roverano Collection was comprised of works by Galofre y Gimenez, Santiago Rusinol, Jean Leon Gerome, Domenico Morelli, Antonio Mancini, Auguste Rodin, and other important painters.
Estimate: $60,000 – $80,000
