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Tuesday 23 March 2021, 03:00 PM • Rome

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Umberto Prencipe

(Napoli 1879 - Roma 1962)

Lot of three engravings

Estimate

€ 500 - 800

Sold

€ 640

The price includes buyer's premium

Information

a) The conference, 1910

etching and aquatint on paper, 42.2 cm x 34,3

titled and numbered in pencil bottom left: the conference 2/50? ; signed in pencil lower right: U. Prencipe

Three series were drawn from the same matrix (1910,1918, 1941) of fifty specimens each.

b) Orvieto, the Cathedral, around 1909-1911

etching and aquatint on paper, 19 x 25.3 cm

initialed lower left, in the plate: UP ; signed in pencil at the bottom left: U-

c) The cliff of Orvieto, 1905

drypoint on paper, 23.6 x 18.8 cm

bottom right: U. Prencipe 1905; bottom left: 1 stampa.


Literature

a)
S. Spinazzè, Umberto Prencipe (1879-1962) , Orvieto 2008, p. 67 n. 73 (repr.), P. 257 n. 70 (with previous bibliography);
Umberto Prencipe 1879-1962. Realtà e visione, exhibition catalog edited by T. Sacchi Lodispoto and S. Spinazzè, Rome, Museo di Roma, 27 May - 13 September 2009, p. 89 n. 33.

b)
S. Spinazzè, Umberto Prencipe (1879-1962) , Orvieto 2008, p. 56 n. 56 (repr.), P. 254 n. 54.
c)
S. Spinazzè, Umberto Prencipe (1879-1962), Orvieto 2008, p. 45 n. 36 (repr.), P. 249 n. 20.