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Pas de Deux by Gino Severini

Pas de Deux by Gino Severini

Pas de Deux

Gino Severini

Title

Pas de Deux

 
Artist

Gino Severini

  1883 - 1966 (biography)
Year
1952  
Technique
color lithograph 
Image Size
14 3/4 x 11 3/16" image size 
Signature
pencil, lower right 
Edition Size
6/19 Epreuve d'artiste, outside published edition of 200 and a Roman numeral edition of 60. 
Annotations
pencil titled and editioned, lower left; name incorporated into the image in the stone, lower right 
Reference
Meloni 22; Iannetti, page 17, illustrated in color. 
Paper
textured dark cream wove Arches 
State
proof 
Publisher
La Guilde de la Gravure, Paris 
Inventory ID
ROJA146 
Price
SOLD
Description

Italian artist Gino Severini was part of the Futurist movement and Divisionism, which emphasized luminosity, defined by the separation of colors into individual dots or patches which interacted optically. He later experimented with Synthetic Cubism, constructing a composition out of fragments of objects.

After a period of working with semi-abstract images he returned to his Futurist roots in the 1950s: dancers, light and movement. This composition "Pas de Deux" features a pair of dancers as viewed through this Futurist-cubist lens, flattened shapes and active, angular lines that give form to the figures.

"Pas de Deux" was done in 1952, this impression was from an artist's proof edition of nineteen, aside from the published edition of 200.