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Description: Oil and fabric assembly on canvas, 120.5 x 70.5 cm. Signed 'Bona' (lower left); signed, titled and dated 'Le Grand Monde' 1959 Bona' (on the reverse)Catalogue note: Bona Tibertelli de Pisis was born in Rome. She received exceptional training at the Atelier d’Art Venturi in Modena and then at the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Venise. Her uncle, painter Filippo de Pisis remained the strongest influence on her life as an artist, introducing the literary and artistic intelligentsia of the period to her. Through her husband, André Pieyre de Mandiargues, Bona met André Breton and the Surrealists, and subsequently showed participated in the 1953 Surrealist Exhibition at the l’Etoile Scellée Gallery and the International Surrealist Exhibitions in Paris in 1959 and 1960.
Provenance: Acquired from Christie’s, Sale 16169, Lot 158, Invoice no. DB18002547. Collection Vera et Arturo Schwarz, Milan. | Don de celle-ci au Israel Museum, Jérusalem, en 1998
Catalogue no.: 2018P0093-B
