Franco Gentilini Lot n° 542

The Tango, 1973 Oil on sandblasted canvas, 120x90 cm. Signature and date at upper left: Gentilini 73. On verso on frame: partially abraded label Painting in Romagna from the Second / mid 19th century to the present - 1974 / Pinacoteca Comunale di Ravenna / Loggetta Lombardesca. History: Collection O. Torda, Rome; Private collection, Rome; Private collection, Milan; Private collection Exhibitions: Gentilini, Venice, Navigliovenezia, August-September 1973; Painting in Romagna from the second half of the 19th century to the present, Ravenna, Pinacoteca Comunale - Loggetta Lombardesca, April 7 - June 16, 1974, cat. p. 215, no. 195, illustrated; Franco Gentilini nel centenario della nascita, edited by Maria Teresa Benedetti, Milan, Museo della Permanente, November 12, 2009 - January 10, 2010, cat. p. 117, no. 65, illustrated in color. Bibliography: Liana Bortolon, Gentilini, Istituto d'Arte Mondadori, Milan, 1975, p. 54; Alain Jouffroy, Franco Gentilini, Gruppo Editoriale Fabbri, Milan, 1987, p. 207, no. 148; Libri della settimana, in Grazia, a. LXI, no. 2474, Milan, July 24, 1988, p. 53; Alain Jouffroy, Gentilini, Fabbri Editori, Milan, 1996, p. 207, table 148; Luciana Gentilini, Giuseppe Appella, Gentilini. Catalogo generale dei dipinti 1923-1981, Edizioni De Luca, Rome, 2000, p. 608, no. 1370.