Miss Bell

Luigi Frugone 1953 Genova

GAM 1524

Unità di misura: cm; Altezza: 205; Larghezza: 101

XVIII Biennale di Venezia - Venezia - 1932

The work was bought by Luigi Frugone in 1926 from the dealer Ferruccio Stefani. In a letter, the collector does not hide his enthusiasm for the possession of the painting, for which he uses the adjective ‘unsurpassable’. The painting was actually destined for the Marquise Matilde Giustiniani Pallavicini Durazzo of Genoa, who wanted to start a collection of modern works of art. But Stefani did not give up proposing it to Luigi, due to the friendly and privileged relationship he had established with the industrialist, and sold it to him for 130,000 lire. In 1932, at the 18th Venice Biennale, on the occasion of the retrospective dedicated to Giovanni Boldini, "Miss Bell" was exhibited with the explicit indication of Luigi Frugone's ownership.