Two paintings by Gino Severini,
sometime Futurist and favorite
uncle (sort of), recently sold at
auction for about $45 million,
much more than any of his previous
paintings and a lot more than he
ever got from his work in his lifetime.
(He died in 1966.) But the
proceeds of the sale are going to
Doctors Without Borders, which
is a courageous humanitarian
group that I've contributed some
meager pennies to. Particularly
apt considering that Gino's young son died
because he couldn't afford adequate medical care.
I can't find any good reproducible images
of these paintings, but here's a link
to an image of one of them--the painting that
sold for almost $30 million, "Danseuse (1915)".
Thanks to my sister Kathy for passing on the family
news.
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