Slovensko Search Shop Books About the National Gallery of Slovenia Permanent Collections Art in Slovenia European Paintings About the Collection Introduction Italian Painters and Italian Schools Spanish (?) School French Painters Flemish and Dutch Painters German and Cent. European Painters 19th and 20th Century Painters Arts and Crafts Art Collection Catalogue Exhibitions and Events Loan and hire Announcements Useful Information European Paintings Home   Permanent Collections   European Paintings   19th and 20th Century Painters 19th and 20th Century Painters  Works of Art  Artists Gino Severini 1883 Cortona - 1966 Paris  18 od 27 Girl from Olévano 1935/1940, oil on panel, 35.4 x 25.4 cm bottom right: G. Severini NG S 1994 Olévano Romano in the Lazio, not far from Rome, is famous for the classical beauty of its women and girls, whom painters often used as models. This portrait from around 1939–40 is typical of Severini’s classicist phase, in which he took some elements of Picasso’s classicist period in the first half of the twenties and academised them. Exhibitions: 1940, Milan; 1940, Venice, No. 5 or 13; 1940, Zurich; 1983, Ljubljana, No. 104. Lit.: Domus, No. 145, May 1940, p. 71; Apollonio 1944, p. 38; Zeri [& Rozman] 1983, p. 173, Cat. and Fig. No. 104; Fonti 1988, p. 450, No. 632 (dated ca. 1939–40). Provenance: Presented to the Narodna galerija in 1942 by the Italian occupation authority of the province; confirmation of the inventorisation of the painting dated 16 April 1943, old Inv. No. 1859; 1952–1983 on loan to the Moderna galerija, Ljubljana. Owner: National Gallery of Slovenia, Ljubljana  About the Artist  Artist's Works Please observe Rights of Use.

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