Mario Nannini
Portrait of Aunt Ester

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Portrait of Aunt Ester
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ArtistItalian, 1895–1918
CultureItalian
Titles
  • Portrait of Aunt Ester
Date1917
MediumOil and collage on board
DimensionsBoard: 38 1/2 × 28 in. (97.8 × 71.1 cm)
 Frame (outer): 47 3/8 × 37 3/4 × 3 1/2 in. (120.3 × 95.9 × 8.9 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the Caroline Wiess Law Accessions Endowment Fund
Object number2023.461
Current Location
The Nancy and Rich Kinder Building
Gallery 203
On view

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Department
Modern and Contemporary Art
Object Type
ProvenanceThe artist; artist’s family by descent; Vittorio Frascione, Florence, by 1960; [Enrico Frascione/Galleria Frascione Arte, Florence]; Jimmy and Jessica Younger Collection, Houston; purchased by MFAH, 2024.
Exhibition HistoryIl Futurismo e il suo tempo: Mostra storica del Futurismo. Venice: XXX Biennale di Venezia, June 18–October 16, 1960

Arte Moderna in Italia 1915–1935. Florence: Palazzo Strozzi, November 1966–February, 1967

La Città e gli artisti: Pistoia tra avanguardie e Novecento. Pistoia, Museo Civico, January 1980

Il Futurismo a Firenze 1910–1920. Florence: Palazzo Medici-Riccardi, February 18–April 8, 1984

Mario Nannini, un futurista a Pistoia (1895-1918). Pistoia: Palazzo communale, December 28, 1995 – January 28, 1996. Catalogue by Rosanna Morozzi, illustrated on cover and p. 83, no. 27.

Mario Nannini (1895 – 1918). Florence, Enrico Frascione, 2009. Catalogue by Rosanna Morozzi, illustrated on cover and p. 37, no. 14.

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