ANTONIO MANCINI | SUONATRICE DI MANDOLA, LIUTISTA

ANTONIO MANCINI
Italian
1852 - 1930
SUONATRICE DI MANDOLA, LIUTISTA

signed A. Mancini, inscribed München and dated 1910 (lower right)
oil on canvas
53 by 53 in.
135 by 135 cm

Condition Report:
Not examined out of the frame. Original unlined condition. The surface presents well and maintains fresh colors and impasto. Under UV: varnish fluoresces green unevenly and in a streaky manner. There are fine retouches on the figure's face and to her proper left eye; to the head of the mandolin; in the upper background and at lower right. Some isolated, brushier dots and small areas of retouching in the lower half of the composition.

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Provenance:
Otto Eugenio Messinger, Munich (commissioned directly from the artist)

Cassani, Milan (by 1961)

Bertolotto, Turin