La figlia dell'ovest - Kunstsammlung NRW / Online-Sammlung

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Artist

Carlo Carrà

1881
Quargnento, Alessàndria, Italien

1966
Mailand, Italien

Work data

Material/Technique

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

Image: 90 × 70 cm
Frame: 105.2 × 95.1 × 6.5 cm

Signature

Bez. u.r.: "C. Carrà 919"

Accession Number

1005

Catalogue Raisonné

Carrà 2/19

Acquisition year

1964

Provenance

The painting “La figlia dell’ovest” by Carlo Carrà remained in the artist’s possession from its creation in 1919 until at least 1927. In 1942, it can be found in the Milan collection of Rino Valdameri. It is also attributed to an unknown private collection in Milan in 1947; this could refer to the collection of Carlo Frua De Angeli, where the work can be found from 1948 to at least 1957. In 1964, Änne Abels’ gallery offered the painting “La figlia dell’ovest” for sale to the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, which purchased it for its holdings.

Between 2009 and 2012, several freelance provenance researchers examined the origins (provenance) of all works in the collection of the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen as part of a comprehensive research project funded by the German Lost Art Foundation. The focus was on all works created before 1945. For the painting “La figlia dell’ovest,” the ownership history during the National Socialist period (1933–1945) could not be fully clarified. For this reason, the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen commissioned a more in-depth investigation into the history of this work in 2025.

If you have any questions or information regarding this work, please contact us:
Dr. Vivien Trommer
Head of Collection
trommer@kunstsammlung.de

Credit line

Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf
Erworben 1964 aus einer Spende des Westdeutschen Rundfunks

Exhibitions

Puppen Körper Automaten. Phantasmen der Moderne, 23.7.-31.10.1999, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf
Unser 20. Jahrhundert - Meisterwerke von Picasso bis Beuys, 14.7.-28.10.2000, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf
L'art italien et la Metafisica. Le temps de la mélancolie 1912-1935, 4.3.-4.6.2005, Musée de Grenoble
Masterpieces of Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen / Meisterwerke der Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, 17.10.2008-30.5.2009, Nagoya City Art Museum, Bunkamura Museum of Art in Tokyo, Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art in Kobe
Die Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen zu Gast in Gottorf. Picasso, Klee, Beckmann, Matisse und weitere Künstler in Schloß Gottorf, 18.7.-24.10.2009, Landesmuseum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte, Stiftung Schleswig-Holsteinische Landesmuseen, Schloß Gottorf, Schleswig
George Grosz. Berlin - New York, 5.5.-29.7.1995, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf
Silent Revolution - Eine neue Sammlungspräsentation, 26.2.-12.6.2010, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, K21 Ständehaus, Düsseldorf
De Chirico a Ferrara. Metafisica e avanguardie / Giorgio de Chirico. Magie der Moderne, 13.11.2015-2.7.2016, Fondazione Ferrara Arte/Staatsgalerie Stuttgart