Gino Severini Artwork valuations, appraisals and auction estimates

Severini Gino (Cortona, 1883 - Paris, 1966) Gino Severini was an Italian artist. At the age of 16 he arrived in Rome, where Giacomo Balla introduced him to pointillist painting, which he deepened in Paris starting from 1906. Read the full biography

Guide to Gino Severini price quotations

Gino Severini was an Italian painter and a key member of the Futurist movement in the early 20th century. Severini's works have been highly sought after, achieving high citations.

Severini's futurist works from the 1910s generally sell for the highest prices due to their historical importance and rarity. His 1915 Danseuse, sold for 17,000,000 euros in 2008, set a record price for the artist. Other early Futurist paintings by Severini have sold for over 2 million euros.

From the 1920s onwards Severini moved away from futurism, approaching subjects with more unscrupulously figurative iconography through the filter of cubism and then metaphysics. These pieces are generally sold at progressively lower prices as the decades pass, often in the tens of thousands of euros for the most recent works.

In general, Gino Severini's auction prices reflect the historical importance of his Futurist works from the early part of his career, as well as the relative scarcity of those paintings compared to his later output.

The record prices of Severini's works also indicate strong demand among collectors for examples of early 20th-century Italian Futurist and Cubist paintings.

Gino Severini Biography

Severini Gino (Cortona, 1883 - Paris, 1966) Gino Severini was an Italian artist. At the age of 16 he arrived in Rome, where Giacomo Balla introduced him to pointillist painting, which he deepened in Paris starting from 1906. He was among the signatories of the Futurist Manifesto in 1910. In Paris he came into contact with Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque , Juan Gris and Guillaume Apollinaire, and contributed to the development of Cubism. Starting from 1921, the year in which he published the treatise "Du cubisme au classicisme" (From Cubism to Classicism), Severini moved from a "cubofuturist" aesthetic to a painting that can be defined as "neoclassical" with metaphysical influences. From 1924 to 1934, also following a religious crisis, he dedicated himself almost exclusively to sacred art with large frescoes and mosaics.