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“托马斯·麦肯齐（Thomas Mackenzie）永远不会让你说完话吗？”-Thomas Mackenzie

你永远不会结束谈话吗--Thomas Mackenzie (英国, 1887 – 1944)

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Alson Skinner Clark:Giverny Countryside
signed \'Alson Clark / Lawton Parker\' (lower right) and inscribed and dated \'A Joint effort by Clark and Parker - Done when the Clarks were guests of the Parkers at Giverny - 1910\' (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
25 1/2 x 34 1/2 in.
framed 29 x 38 in.

阿尔森·斯金纳·克拉克 吉维尼乡村25 1/2 x 34 1/2英寸。框架29 x 38英寸。

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皮耶罗·多拉齐奥-

Piero Dorazio * - Zeitgenössische Kunst I-

(Rome 1927–2005 Perugia)
Ex Tempore VI, 1963, signed, dated and titled on the reverse, oil on canvas, 41.2 x 33.5 cm, framed

This work is registered in the Archivio Piero Dorazio, Milan and is accompanied by a photo certificate of authenticity

Provenance:
H. Gross Collection, Zurich
Sale, Aste Boetto, Genoa, 25 October 2016, lot 110
European Private Collection

Literature:
M. Volpi Orlandini, Dorazio, Alfieri Edizioni, Venice 1977, no. 676
W. Guadagnini, Fontana e Milano - Continuità di una storia, Galleria Tega, Milan 2019, p. 95 with ill.

The subject of the painting always drives from the previous painting, hence there is no reason for inspiration. One tries again, keeps on trying to do what he has already done…
Piero Dorazio

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Alex Katz，当代艺术I-

Alex Katz - Zeitgenössische Kunst I-

(born in Brooklyn/New York in 1927)
Maria, 1990 signed and dated, oil on board, 45.7 x 60.7 cm, framed

This work is registered in the Alex Katz archive.

Provenance:
Private Collection, Italy
European Private Collection
Acquired from the above by the present owner

In the nineteen-fifties, when most of the serious art being done was abstract, Katz outraged scores of artists and formalist critics by inventing new ways to paint the human figure. He has always had his own direction, which has not been the direction of mainstream art in any of the last seven decades. In a Katz painting, style—the way it’s painted—is the primary element. His confident, crisply articulated technique makes us see the world the way he sees it, clear and up close, with all but the most essential details pared away. (…)

His main influences were television ads, movie closeups, Japanese prints (by Utamaro, in particular), and billboards (…).

Katz had found a way to paint portraits that he described, as “brand-new terrific.” Ignoring character and mood, he offered the pure sensation of outward appearance—not who the people were, but how they appeared at a specific moment. “I can’t think of anything more exciting than the surface of things,” he later told an interviewer.
(taken from: Calvin Tompkins, Alex Katz’s Life in Art, The New Yorker, 20/8/2018)

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POGANY, WILLY. 1882-1955.:14 costume designs for The Thunderbird, one-act Aztec ballet choreographed by Michel Fokine with libretto by his wife Vera Fokina, performed in the revue Get Together, opened at the New York Hippodrome, September 3, 1921, watercolor, gouache and silver paint over pencil, 13 measure 480 x 348 mm (19 x 13 5/8 inches); and one for Vera Fokina measuring 535 x 370 mm (20 1/2 x 14 1/2 inches), all but one signed \"Willy Pogany\" and four with Fokine\'s autograph pencil notation \"O. K./ M. Fokine,\" with additional manuscript notes in Russian and English, many in his hand, on versos, various date labels affixed to the versos, fabric samples to the verso of one, some chipping to corners, minor soiling. Housed in custom cloth box, morocco title label Willy Pogany 1882-1955 on spine.

FINE COLLECTION OF POGANY COSTUME DESIGNS FOR FOKINE\'S THE THUNDERBIRD. Hungarian-born artist Willy Pogány was one of the most versatile artists of the early 20th Century. He first gained fame as an exceptional children\'s and other gift book illustrator after he moved to London in 1908. Ten years later he came to the United States where he became a prolific contributor to books and magazines and a busy set and costume designer for Broadway, the Metropolitan Opera and the movies. His murals graced theaters and apartment buildings. In Hollywood, he was art director for many motion pictures including Dames, Dante\'s Inferno, Kid Millions and Wonder Bar. Walter Lantz\'s Technicolor animated short Scrambled Eggs (1939) featured Pogány\'s Peterkin, a mischievous satyr.

Michel Fokine (1880-1942) was one of the most influential dancers and choreographers of the Modern Era. Sergei Diaghilev made him resident choreographer of the Ballets Russes in 1909. Among his greatest ballets for this company were The Firebird (1910); Petrushka (1912); and Le Spectre de la Rose (1911) in which Nijinsky danced the lead role. He and his wife, ballerina Vera Fokina, left Russia in 1918. After the triumphal 1918 New York debut of Rimsky-Korsakov\'s opera Le Coq d\'or at The Met as a ballet by Fokine with sets and costumes by Pogány (\"as mad as Trotzky [sic] and twice as exhilarating\"), the choreographer and his designer teamed again for a new ballet based on an Aztec legend. The Thunderbird was the highlight of Dillingham\'s oddly assorted Broadway revue Get Together. Fokina was responsible for the libretto; and she and her husband danced as Princess Nahua and Atzlan. The music was a selection from Russian composers Borodin, Glinka and Tchaikovsky, and Fokine also choreographed a ballet on ice for the show based on \"The Red Shoes.\" \"Fokine has done a gorgeous piece of choreography, and Mr. Pogany has given it setting and costumes that surpass anything he has heretofore done, not even his \'Coq d\'Or.\' The story of the princess released by love from the power of a wizard and her union with her warrior lover is beautifully told\" (New York Tribune, Sept. 5, 1921). The Thunderbird was like a Native American Firebird. Perhaps the loveliest of Pogány\'s designs was for Fokina\'s princess, a silver costume with white ostrich plumes.

帕甘，威利。1882-1955. 《雷鸟》（The Thunderbird）的14件服装设计，由米歇尔·福金（Michel Fokine）编舞，由其妻子维拉·福金娜（Vera Fokina）演唱剧本，是一幕阿兹特克芭蕾舞剧，于1921年9月3日在纽约竞技场开幕，

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BENOIS, ALEXANDRE. 1870-1960.:Costume design of Monsieur Jourdain, for the Balanchine ballet of Molière\'s Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme, produced by the Ballets Russes de Monte-Carlo, 1932, watercolor, ink and graphite, 308 x 193 mm (12 1/8 x 7 1/2 inches), signed by Benois in pencil in lower left corner.

Benois founded the Mir iskusstva [World of Art] group with Sergei Diaghilev and was one of the most important designers of the Ballets Russes, second only to Léon Bakst. His best known sets and costumes were done for the original production of the Stravinsky ballet Petrouchka (1911) based on his idea. Benois emigrated to France in 1927 and continued to work for the theater in Paris, Milan, London, New York and elsewhere. Both Benois and Balanchine were associated with the Ballets Russes de Monte-Carlo, the successor to the original Ballets Russes, that formed after Diaghilev\'s death in 1932. Balanchine revived his ballet in 1979 for the New York City Opera with the assistance of Jerome Robbins and Peter Martins and Rudolph Nureyev in his first Balanchine production. Sold with 3 additional costume designs, two from an unknown artist, and one in pencil attributed to Georgii Yakulov.

亚历山大，贝努瓦。1870-1960. Jourdain先生为莫里哀（Molière）的《布尔乔亚传奇》（Le Bourgeois Gentilhome）巴兰钦芭蕾舞团的服装设计，由蒙特卡洛芭蕾舞团（Russe de Monte Carlo）于1932年制作，

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皮耶罗·多拉齐奥-

Piero Dorazio * - Zeitgenössische Kunst I-

(Rome 1927–2005 Perugia)
Untitled [Contro il rassegnarsi], 1967, Signed, dated, dedicated and inscribed on the reverse, oil on canvas, 100 x 100, framed

This work is registered in the Archivio Piero Dorazio, Milan and is accompanied by a photo certificate of authenticity

Provenance:
V. Pirozzi Collection, Rome
Sale Farsetti, Prato, 27 May 2000, lot 303
Anfiteatro Arte, Milan
European Private Collection

Exhibited:
Milan, Galleria Anfiteatro Arte, 1999, exh. cat. p. 47 no. 15 with ill.
Genoa, Dorazio, Marco Canepa Arte Contemporanea, 2006, exh. cat. with ill.
Padua, Piero Dorazio, Anfiteatro Arte, 1 February – 18 March 2007, exh. cat. p. 74 and 75 with ill. (label on the reverse)


Literature:
M. Volpi Orandini, J. Lassaigne, G. Crisafi, Dorazio Catalogo ragionato delle opere, Alfieri Editore, 1977, no. 8 (in the addenda at the end of the catalogue)

The subject of the painting always drives from the previous painting, hence there is no reason for inspiration. One tries again, keeps on trying to do what he has already done…
Piero Dorazio

Of all the great first and second generation 美国 painters I have known since 1953 (the third generation is not yet discernable), Kenneth Noland is a truly singular case.

He is from North Carolina and Washington, i.e. the provinces, rather than the artistic milieu of New York.

[...]In the 1950s and 1960s I never understood whether some artistic circles in the Metropolis or certain isolated artists like Kenneth Noland and Morris Louis, Georgia O\'Keeffe in New Mexico or Andrew Wyeth in Pennsylvania were more provincial. Although isolated, Louis and Noland were already the most modern of modern 美国 painters in the early 1960s. They were a surprising revelation when discovered and presented by the critic Clement Greenberg at the 法国 and Co. Gallery in New York. Their exhibitions in that gallery between \'59 and \'60 remain by far the most exciting of the decade.

Kenneth Noland\'s painting has nothing to do, therefore, with all the clichés of 美国 painting disseminated here by European critics who have framed all expressions into schools or categories or groups (Action Painting, New Dada, Abstract expressionism, Pop Art, Minimal Art etc.) letting what were actually the most creative values and personalities slip through their fingers. [...]

Ken Noland established himself, from the late 1960s and 1970s, among those few artists defined as \'Colour field painters\' or \'Post Painterly Abstraction\' not as a group but rather as a trend: Helen Frankenhaler, Morris Louis, Jules Olitsky, Friedel Dzubas, Larry Poons. There was a convergence of interests among these painters for colour as an element that defines large spaces and long periods of time for the observer, who is induced to meditate because he is immersed in the rhythm of the lines and chromatic masses of a truly abstract painting, devoid of any allusion or reference to the real, the metaphysical or the subjective temperament. Painting that refers on the one hand to the decorative character of early Matisse, and on the other to the secular spirit of Constructivism. Among those painters, Noland was always the one who, with tenacity and clarity of purpose, was best able to sublimate \'pure visibility\' into a highly lyrical personal poetics. His nature as a colourist and his technique inspired his constant formal research into surface-colour and material-colour relationships. [...]

In these works chromatic fantasy and refined sensitivity, arranged in a precise structural order, bring the brushstrokes and pictorial matter to life in decisive and delicate spaces and lights and rhythms, expressing a constant reflection on the inevitable characteristics of reality. Constancy and appearance, the negative and the positive, fullness and emptiness; our gaze is entertained and delighted by this repertoire of perception, emotion and mind.

(Piero Dorazio, Il singolare caso di Kenenth Noland, in “Rigando dritto. Piero Dorazio Scritti 1945-2004, pp. 425-427)