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.