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La tasca della giacca

Domenico Gnoli (Italian, 1933–1970)
1966

Medium/Technique Oil and sand on canvas
Dimensions 43 x 55 in. (48 1/2 x 60 x 3 in. overall)
Credit Line Melvin Blake and Frank Purnell Collection
Accession Number2003.38
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPaintings

InscriptionsIn black on back of canvas, left of mid-center: D. Gnoli 1966 "Tasca"

[There are two other labels on the back of the frame. Both are from exhibitions - "Exposicion Domenico Gnoli," Madrid: Fundacion Caja de Pensiones, cat. no. 8 (label dates the work to 1965) and "Forma y Figuracion" at the Guggenheim Bilbao, 1998]
ProvenanceUntil 1973, Galerie Jan Krugier, Geneva, Switzerland; 1973, sold by Krugier to the Galerie Isy Brashot, Paris and Brussels. By 1990, Melvin N. Blake (b. 1927 - d. 1999) and Frank M. Purnell (b. 1930 - d. 1994), New York; 2003, gift of the estate of Melvin Blake to MFA. (Accession Date: January 22, 2003)
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