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Stage Design

Artist Fabrizio Galliari (Italian, 1709 - 1790)
Datemid-18th century
MediumBrown ink and gray wash on paper
DimensionsOverall: 12 5/16 × 9 1/4 inches (31.27 × 23.5 cm)
Framed: 26 × 20 × 1 inches (66.04 × 50.8 × 2.54 cm)
Credit LineBequest of Milton McGreevy
Object number81-30/28
SignedRecto: "Fabrizio Galliari/ 1709-90" "29"
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Exhibition History

Old Master Drawings Selected from the Collection of Milton McGreevy, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, May 6-June 5, 1983, no. 9, as Architectural composition (probable stage design).

Dürer to Matisse: Master Drawings from the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, The Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, OK, June 23-August 18, 1996; The Cummer Museum and Gardens, Jacksonville, FL, September 20-November 29, 1996; The Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, December 21, 1996-March 2, 1997, no. 46, as Architectural Composition.

Dürer to Matisse: Master Drawings from the Permanent Collection, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, July 12-September 6, 1998, no cat., as Architectural Composition.

Decorative Designs, Decorative Landscapes and Still Life, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, February 15-July 26, 2017, no cat., as Stage Design.

Provenance

Edward Gordon Craig (1872-1966), Vence, France, by 1966;

Zeitlin and Ver Brugge Booksellers, Los Angeles, by 1966;

Purchased from Zeitlin and Ver Brugge Booksellers, Milton McGreevy (1903-1980), Shawnee Mission, KS, February 23, 1966-1980;

Bequest of Milton McGreevy to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1981.

Published References

Ross E. Taggart, Old Master Drawings Selected from the Collection of Milton McGreevy, exh. cat. (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1982), unpaginated, (repro.), as Architectural composition (probable stage design).

Roger Ward, Dürer to Matisse: Master Drawings from the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, exh. cat. (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1996), 152-53, (repro.), as Architectural Composition.

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