Zoran Antoni Music

Property of another owner Zoran Antonio Music (Italian, 1909-2005) Fillets (Après la pêche) (S. 62), 1958 Color aquatint on Arches paper, signed in pencil and numbered 11/120, published/printed by L'Oeuvre Gravée, Zurich/Lacourière, Paris, with margins, in good condition aside from time- and backboard staining, foxing, few soft handling creases, framed. 16 1/2 x 22 1/4in sheet 18 3/8 x 24 1/8in

Zoran Antonio Music * (Görz 1909–2005 Venice) “Censimento Appenninico” , signed, dated Music 69, title verso, signed, dated Music 1969, oil on canvas, 73 x 100 cm, framed (PP) Photo certificate from the artist, dated 21.4.84 Photo certificate from the Galleria d’’’’Arte Contini, Venice Provenance: Galleria del Girasole, Udine (verso adhesive label) Galleria Barsotti, Lucca Private Collection, Lucca Galleria Contini, Venice Private Collection, Italy Exhibition: Music, paesaggi dal 1951 al 1979, Galleria d’’’’Arte Niccoli, Parma 1987, exh. cat. page 28 with ill.

Lot Description Zoran Antonio Music (1909-2005) Autoportrait signed and dated 'Music 86' (lower right); signed and dated again, titled and inscribed 'Music 1986 Autoportrait Technique mixte' (on the support reverse) gouache and watercolor on paper laid down by the artist on panel 18 1/8 x 13 3/8 in. (46 x 34 cm.) Executed in 1986 Provenance Cadby-Birch Gallery, New York. Acquired from the above by the family of the present owner. Pre-Lot Text PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTOR Exhibited New York, The Jewish Museum, An Artist's Response to Evil, March-June 2002.

Lot Description Zoran Antonio Music (1909-2005) Paesaggio Dalmata signed and dated 'Music 1952' (lower center); signed and dated again and titled 'Music 1952 Paesaggio Dalmata' (on the reverse) oil on canvas 25½ x 36¼ in. (64.8 x 92.1 cm.) Painted in 1952 Provenance Private collection (acquired from the artist, 1953); sale, Sotheby Parke Bernet Inc., New York, 23 October 1980, lot 255. Acquired at the above sale by the family of the present owner. Pre-Lot Text PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTOR Exhibited London, Grosvenor Gallery, Antonio Music, Retrospective Exhibition of Paintings, Pastels and Graphic Work from 1949-1968, May 1969, no. 6. View Lot Notes > Zoran Antonio Music was born in 1909 in the Italian town of Gorizia, bordering Slovenia. His childhood was marked by constant change owing to the political climate in Eastern Europe. While he studied both at the Academy of Arts in Zagreb and in Madrid, Music was forced to return to Dalmatia at the outbreak of civil war in Spain. Music moved to Venice in 1940, where he painted church frescos, his evolving style based on Byzantine art, the trecentro Italian painters Cimabue and Giotto, and the early Renaissance master Piero della Francesca. He was deported to the infamous Dachau concentration camp in 1944, an experience he recounted in later paintings. In the years following the war, Music embarked on the most celebrated theme of his oeuvre, the motivos Dalmata. In these canvases he explored his own nomadic upbringing through an archaic style in the landscape of his youth. In René de Solier's catalogue of Music's works, the artist is praised for this new theme "[he] used to advantage the rich substance of remembered things but, in so doing, has succeeded in evolving an unmistakable and truly personal style" (Music, Rome, 1955, p. 11).

Zoran (Antonio) Music Gorizia/Slowenien 1909 – 2005 Venice „PAYSAGE“ 1959. Colour aquatint on Arches wove paper. 38 x 53,5 cm (50,5 x 66 cm) (15 x 21 ⅛ in. (19 ⅞ x 26 in.)) Signed and dated. Schmücking 78. - One of 250 numbered prints. Annual edition of the Kestnergesellschaft, Hanover 1959 (with the stamp on the reverse).