À propos du lot
n° 43
Titre : Dan
Medium : Wood with a crusted coating that hides traces of red dyeDimensions : H 23 cmProvenance : - Former Serge Brignoni (*) collection, acquired before the ‘40s, - Former private collection (Lugano),Literature : - FISCHER EBERHARD & HIMMELHEBER HANS “Die Kunst der Dan” Rietberg Museum Zurich 1976, - GIANINAZZI CLAUDIO & GIORDANO CHRISTIAN “Culture Extraeuropee: Collezione Serge e Graziella Brignoni” City of Lugano Edition 1989, - MUSEE DE L’HOMME “Arts primitifs dans les ateliers d’artistes: Serge Brignoni” Paris 1967,Notes : (*) Serge Brignoni (Chiasso 1903 - Bern 2002). A painter and sculptor who was born in Chiasso in 1903, Serge Brignoni developed a passion for the art of the “South Seas” which, since the start of the 1900s, had started to appear in Europe. He was awestruck by sculptures created by people in the Far East, India, south-east Asia, Indonesia and Oceania, particularly for the way they creatively depicted a fantastical, surreal world. Between 1930 and 1980, he collected a large amount of so-called “primitive” art sculptures in the European antiques’ market. The curiosity he felt observing the many objects that came from Oceania oriented his artistic career towards the experience of Surrealism and metaphysical art.In 1925, he discovers African art. During a trip to Paris, he visits the many antique galleries which, in those years, displayed objects from French colonies in Africa. It is this that allows him to come into contact with African sculpting, where he admires the way they are stylised and the purity of their forms. From there onwards, he starts his stellar career as a collector and connoisseur of ethnic art. But his sculpting work continues without pause and his works place him among the key figures of Surrealism on an international level. Throughout the years, the city of Lugano dedicates many cultural initiatives to him, which exhibit some of his works. There are numerous exhibitions dedicated to Brignoni as a collector of primitive art: evocative exhibitions presented to the public of Lugano in the Palace of Extra-European Cultures (Museum of Villa Ciani).It is to this Museum that Brignon donates his vast collection of primitive art works in 1985.Finarte, Salle de vente
, Milano, IT
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Titre de la vente : African Art: the prestigious Keller-Morigi Swiss collection
Date de la vente : 14/10/2020
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