About the Artwork
Dispetto
1948
Afro Basaldella
1912-1976
Italian
Unknown
Watercolor on paper mounted on burlap (and coated?)
Sheet: 13 1/4 × 18 7/8 inches (33.7 × 47.9 cm) Burlap mount (irregular): 17 5/8 × 24 5/8 inches (44.8 × 62.5 cm) Framed: 22 11/16 × 28 3/4 × 1 1/2 inches (57.6 × 73 × 3.8 cm)
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Gift of John S. Newberry
50.250
Copyright Not Evaluated
Markings
Signed and dated, lower left: Afro 1948
Provenance
1950, Catherine Viviano Gallery (New York, New York, USA);John S. Newberry, Jr.;
1950-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Bulletin of the DIA 30, 3/4 (1950-51) p. 86.
Contemporary Italian Art. Exh. cat., City Art Museum. St. Louis, November 1955, cat. no. 1.
Italian Design Today. Exh. cat., Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts. Columbus, 1956, no. 150.
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Credit Line for Reproduction
Afro Basaldella, Dispetto, 1948, watercolor on paper mounted on burlap (and coated?). Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of John S. Newberry, 50.250.
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