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Giacomo ManzúAutograph by Giacomo Manzù - 19371937
1937
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This is a Autograph Card Signed by Giacomo Manzù to the Countess Pecci-Blunt.
Milan, May 28th 1937. In Italian. One page-single-sided. Excellent condition, on laid ivory-colored cardboard.
Thanks Card to the Countess and patron of arts that was organizing a Manzù solo-exhibition at the branch of the Cometa Gallery in Paris.
Countess Anna Laetitia Pecci (Rome, 1885 - Marlia, 1971)
Better known as Mimì , the Italian noblewoman was an art collector, patron and nephew of Pope Leo XIII. Extremely volcanic, she was very active in the cultural field, opening numerous lounges, galleries and theaters. In 1919 she married Cecil Blumenthal, later changed to Blunt, a wealthy Jewish banker from New York, heir to an important collection of nineteenth-century French painting. His Parisian and Roman salons was frequented by artists and intellectuals of the caliber of Alberto Moravia, Mario Praz, Salvador Dalì, Paul Valery, Poulenc, Paul Claudel. In 1935 together with the Italian poeta Libero de Libera, the Countess founded the Cometa Gallery in Rome, until 1938. Because of racial laws, she will open a branch of La Cometa Gallery in New York.
- Creator:Giacomo Manzú (1908 - 1991, Italian)
- Creation Year:1937
- Dimensions:Height: 4.22 in (10.7 cm)Width: 6.58 in (16.7 cm)Depth: 0.04 in (1 mm)
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- Gallery Location:Roma, IT
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