Gino Severini

This catalogue number is presumed to be an error. It is situated between cat. no. 28 and 30.

[Description]“The sense of morbid oppression after reading Edgar Poe's tale.“

[Description] “Sensation of the bustle and hubbub created by the Tsiganes, the champagne-sodden crowd, the perverse dance of the professionals, the clashing of colours and laughter at the famous night-tavern at Montmartre.“

[Description]“Sensations of the artist's journey from his native house to Paris, the proportions and values being rendered in accordance with the emotion and the mentality of the painter.“

[Description]“The sum total of impressions, past and present, near and distant, small or exaggerated of ‘The Dancer’, according to the various states of mind of the painter who has studied her at many periods of his life.“

[Description]“Forms are destroyed by electric light and movement.“

[Description] “An arabesque of the movement produced by the twinkling colours and iridescence of the frills and
furbelows on show; the electric light divides the scene into defined zones. A study of simultaneous penetration.“

[Description]“Light and shadow cut up the bustle of the boulevard into geometrical shapes.“

[Description]“The rhythms suggested to the painter by the objects and the ambience of his room.“

- "Eindruck des Lärmes einer Musikkapelle, die champagnertrunkene Menge der perverse Tanz der Artistin, das Gelächter und der Farbenreichtum in dem berühmten Nachtlokal auf dem Montmartre."
- Not exhibited in Berlin (see: exhibition overview)

"Eindrücke der Reise des Künstlers von seiner Vaterstadt."

"Das Gefühl der krankhaften Beklemmung nach Lektüre der Novelle von Edgar Allan Poe."

"Gesamteindrücke, vergangene und gegenwärtige, nahe und entfernte, klein und große einer Tänzerin, so wie sie dem Maler erschienn, der sie in verschiedenen Perioden seines Lebens studiert hat."

"Die Formen der Tänzerinnen werden durch die Bewegungen und das elektrische Licht zerrissen."

"Eine Arabeske hervorgebracht durch die verschiedenen Farben und Linien der Rüschen und Kragen, die in einem Putzgeschäft zur Ansicht ausliegen. Das elektrische Licht teilt die Szenerie in genau festgesetzte Zonen. Eine zugleich scharfsinnige Studie."

"Licht und Schatten zerteilt die Hast auf dem Boulevard in geometrische Formen."

"Der Rhythmus, den Gegenstände und Umgebungen seines Zimmers auf den Maler ausüben."

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painting Vendu à Mme de C. M.

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painting Vendu à la Sackville Gallery de Londres

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painting Vendu à M. Max Rotschild

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"Azon benyo-
mások, amelyeket egy zenekar lármája, a pezsgőtől
mámoros tömeg, a kabarédiva perverz tánca, a
nevetgélés és a szinek bujasága okoz az emberben
ha belép ebbe a hires éjjeli mulatóba a Mont-
martreon.
[The impressions brought about by the noise of the band, the mass of people intoxicated by champagne, the perverse dance of the cabaret-diva, the laughter and the exuberance of colours, that emerge in a person when entering this famous night club on Montmartre.]"

"Azon beteges érzés ábrázolása,
mely az embert Edgár Allan Poe műveinek olva-
sása után fogja el. [Depiction of the sickening feeling that takes holf of one after reading works by Edgar Allan Poe.]"

"Egy táncosnő együttes be-
nyomásai, még pedig régiek és jelenlegiek,
távoli és közeliek, kicsinyek és nagyok, ahogy azok
a művész lelkében is életre kelnek, aki ezt a tán-
cosnőt életének különféle periódusaiban tanulmá-
nyozta.
[The joint impressions of a female dancer, namely old and new ones, farther and closer ones, small and big ones, how these come alive in the soul of the artist, for who studied this dancer in several periods of her life.]"

"Egy divatáru-üzlet kirakatába tett
rüsök és szalagok szineiből és vonalaiból össze-
állitott arabeszk. A villany fénye az egész jelenetet
biztosan határolt részekre osztja.
[An arabesque made up of the colours and lines of frills and ribbons put in the show window of a fashion boutique.]"

"Azon rhytmus, amelyet a
szobában elhelyezett tárgyak és a környezet a
benne lakó művészre gyakorol.
[The rhythm of items and books exerting their influence on the artist living in the room where they are placed.]"

painting Passage accompanying entry: "It has been my endeavour to produce by means of lines and planes the rhythmic sensation of speed, of spasmodic motion, and of deafening noise. The heavy vehicle pursues its headlong career from Montmartre to Montrouge along the crowded streets of Paris, dashing across the path of other motors, grazing their very wheels and hurling itself in the direction of the houses. "The houses enter the motor-bus, the motor-bus enters the houses." (Technical Manifesto of Futurist Painters.)"

painting Passage accompanying entry: "The idea of the speed with which a lighted body spins through dark or lighted tunnels, is conveyed by means of colours, tones and forms. The great notice boards placarded in the stations enter the compartments in motion. The letters written on the placards act upon the memory through their literary significance at the same time as they act upon the eyes by means of their colour. "

painting Passage accompanying entry: "The circular rhythmic movement of a dancer, the folds of whose dress are held out by means of a hoop. These folds preserve their exterior form, modified in a uniform manner through the rotary movement. In order the better to convey the notion of relief, I have attempted to model the essential portions in a manner which is almost sculptural. Light and ambience act simultaneously on the forms in movement."

painting Passage accompanying entry: "Musical rhythm accompanies the arabesque of lines and planes, the harmony of tones and values. Light, translated through abstract forms, now and then breaks into the rhythm."

painting Passage accompanying entry: " Displacement of bodies in atmosphere. Two persons form one plastic unity, rhythmically balanced. "

painting Passage accompanying entry: "My object has been to convey the sensation of a body, lighted by electric lamps and gyrating in the darkness of the Boulevard. The shapes of the pink pigs and of the women seated on them are the subordinate factors of the whole, whose rotary movement they follow while undergoing displacement from head to foot and vice-versa."

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drawing Passage accompanying entry: "These drawings illustrate the pursuit of form, of balance of values, and of movement. Each drawing is an objective study, an effort in the direction of synthesis and the absolute. I consider the Plastic Absolute to be the communion, the sympathy which exists between ourselves, the centre of things and things themselves. 'The spectator must be placed in the centre of the picture' (Technical Manifesto of Futurist Painting.)"

drawing, Drawings with indications of colours

drawing, Drawings with indications of colours

drawing, Drawings with indications of colours

drawing, Drawings with indications of colours

drawing, Drawings with indications of colours

drawing, Drawings with indications of colours

drawing, Drawings with indications of colours

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drawing, Drawings with indications of colours Passage accompanying entry: "An overpowering need for abstraction has driven me to put on one side all realisation of mass and of form in the sense of pictural relief. By the simple indication of values and of mass I have arrived at arabesque. The indication of form and colour should give us the total reality. These drawings and plastic rhythms."

painting Collection Borchardt

painting Acheté par M. Bernheim Jeune

painting Collection Borchardt

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Original entry: "10-11. [cat. no.] Il "Nord-Sud" (Studio)".

Original entry: "10-11. [cat. no.] Il "Nord-Sud" (Studio)".

Original entry: "19-20. [cat. no.] Essenziale ritmico di un ritratto".

Original entry: "19-20. [cat. no.] Essenziale ritmico di un ritratto".

Original entry: "24-25. [cat. no.] Ritratto della signorina Jeanne Paul Fort".

Original entry: "24-25. [cat. no.] Ritratto della signorina Jeanne Paul Fort".

Original entry: "28-29. [cat. no.] Il treno entra nelle case".

Original entry: "28-29. [cat. no.] Il treno entra nelle case".

Original entry: "35-36. [cat. no.] Tango argentino (Studio)".

Original entry: "35-36. [cat. no.] Tango argentino (Studio)".

drawing The "Z" behind the title in the catalogue is interpreted as "Zeichnung" (= drawing).