Cagnaccio di San Pietro (Desenzano del Garda 1897-... Lot n° 21

(Desenzano del Garda 1897–1946 Venice) L’aragosta e l’astice, 1934, signed and dated, oil on wood, 58.5 x 80 cm, framed Provenance: Galleria Gomiero, Milan - Padua European Private Collection Exhibited: Rome, Seconda Quadriennale d’Arte Nazionale, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, 5 February – 31 July 1935 (label on the reverse) Rovereto, Un’eterna bellezza. Il canone classico nell’Arte Italiana del primo Novecento, MART, 2 July – 5 November 2017, exh. cat. p. 218, no. 103 with ill. Note: A smaller and slightly cut version of this painting is reproduced in the following literature: AA. VV., Cagnaccio di San Pietro, catalogue of the exhibition held at Museo Correr, Venice, Electa 1991, no. 82 with ill. Claudia Gian Ferrari (ed.), Cagnaccio di San Pietro: la magia dello sguardo, catalogue of the exhibition held at Palazzo Martinengo, Brescia, 1997, p. 85, no. 45 with ill.