Saturday, July 5, 2025

Gino Severini

Gino Severini
The Boulevard
ca. 1910-11
oil on canvas
Estorick Collection, London


Gino Severini
Self Portrait
1912
drawing
Art Institute of Chicago

Gino Severini
Festival in Montmartre
1913
oil on canvas
Art Institute of Chicago

Gino Severini
Le Double Boston
[dance step]
1913
chalk on paper
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis

Gino Severini
Sea = Dancer
1914
oil on canvas
Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice

Gino Severini
Red Cross Train passing a Village
1915
oil on canvas
Guggenheim Museum, New York

Gino Severini
Still Life
1916
oil on canvas
Art Institute of Chicago

Gino Severini
Self Portrait
1916
drawing
Art Institute of Chicago

Gino Severini
Quaker Oats Cubist Still Life
1917
oil on canvas
Estorick Collection, London

Gino Severini
Still Life against Pink
1918
oil on canvas
Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, Netherlands

Gino Severini
Harlequin
1922
gouache on paper
Yale University Art Gallery

Gino Severini
Pierrot with Guitar
1923
oil on canvas
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam

Gino Severini
Pigeons and Grapes
1930
pochoir
Dallas Museum of Art

Gino Severini
Portrait of the artist's daughter Gina
1931
oil on panel
Museum de Fundatie, Zwolle, Netherlands

Gino Severini
Pas de Deux
1952
lithograph
Art Institute of Chicago

Gino Severini
Composition
1955
lithograph
Moderna Museet, Stockholm

Ode Nine

Snow's on the fellside, look! How deep;
our wood's staggering under its weight.
The burns will be tonguetied
while frost lasts.

But we'll thaw out. Logs, logs for the hearth,
and don't spare my good whisky. No water, please.
Forget the weather. Elm and ash

will stop signalling
when this gale drops.
Why reckon? Why forecast? Pocket
whatever today brings,
and don't turn up your nose, it's childish,
at making love and dancing.
When you've my bare scalp, if you must, be glum.

Keep your date in the park while light's whispering.
Hunt her out, well wrapped up, hiding and giggling,
and get her bangle for a keepsake;
she won't make much fuss.

– Horace (65-8 BC), translated by Basil Bunting (1977)