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Artist or Maker: Luigi Lucioni (1900-1988)
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Provenance: Dr. Harry Blutman, New York, the artist's doctor.
Private collection, New York.
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Exhibited: New York, Associated American Artists, Luigi Lucioni, 1943, no. 7.
New York, Richard York Gallery, Luigi Lucioni: Still Lifes, 1991, no. 8.
New York, Richard York Gallery, American Still Lifes: 1815-1955, 1991-92.
Manchester, Vermont, Southern Vermont Art Center, Luigi Lucioni (1900-1988): A Twentieth-Century Renaissance Realist, 1993.
Ogunquit, Maine, Ogunquit Museum of American Art, Realism in 20th Century American Painting, 1997.
Manchester, Vermont, Southern Vermont Art Center, Luigi Lucioni, 2000.
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Literature: E.A. Jewell, "Lucioni Paintings on Exhibition Here," The New York Times, April 16, 1943.
New York Sun, April 16, 1943.
E.A. Jewell, "Approach: A Critic's Attitude Toward His Task," The New York Times, April 18, 1943, illustrated.
Richard York Gallery, An American Gallery: Volume IV, New York, 1988, no. 25, illustrated.
H.G. Lee, Taste of the States: A Food History of America, 1992, p. 13 and back cover, illustrated.
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Notes: Property from the Estate of Richard T. York
The artist called this still life "one of my best paintings." (letter from L. Lucioni to Richard T. York, 3 March 1987, unpublished) Indeed, it was mentioned in three reviews of Lucioni's 1943 exhibition. The New York Sun wrote that "perhaps his still-life subjects are the most appealing and the most triumphantly accomplished in preparation: such, for instance, as Blue and Ivory, Flower Patterns, [and] Bread and Fruit."
