Studio per Nature Morte avec Guitare

Charcoal and chalk on paper, 1919, dated janvier-fevrier 1919 upper right. Dimensions: 69.3 x 90 cm (27 1/4 x 35 3/8 in). Provenance: The artist’s estate Rome; private collection (acquired there in June 1978); Sale Christie’s London, 28.02.2018, lot 352. Literature: Fonti, D. Gino Severini catalogo ragionato. Milan 1988. p 293, no. 355A.

A large-sized, final preparatory drawing for the painting by the same title currently in the Rijksmseum Kröller-Müller Otterlo, (see below) showing the method the artist used for projecting the different geometries of planes.