Paul Cadmus
Luigi Lucioni
American Art
On View: American Art Galleries, 5th Floor, Witness
Luigi Lucioni and Paul Cadmus probably met as students, and they doubtless shared acquaintances within New York’s circles of gay artists and writers. Lucioni’s likeness of Cadmus celebrated the shared passion of two young moderns for the ideal forms of Italian Renaissance art, particularly the paintings of Piero della Francesca. Within a modern close-up format, he captured a gaze that is at once tentative and mesmerizing.
MEDIUM
Oil on canvas
DATES
1928
DIMENSIONS
16 x 12 1/8 in. (40.6 x 30.8 cm)
Frame: 20 3/8 x 16 1/2 x 2 in. (51.8 x 41.9 x 5.1 cm) (show scale)
SIGNATURE
Signed upper right: "L. Lucioni 28"
COLLECTIONS
American Art
ACCESSION NUMBER
2007.28
CREDIT LINE
Dick S. Ramsay Fund
PROVENANCE
Ca. 1928, gift of the artist to Paul Cadmus; 1988, inherited from Paul Cadmus by Jon Anderson; September 12, 2007, purchased at Christie’s New York, “Fine American Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture” by the Brooklyn Museum.
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EXHIBITIONS
MUSEUM LOCATION
This item is on view in American Art Galleries, 5th Floor, Witness
CAPTION
Luigi Lucioni (American, born Italy, 1900–1988). Paul Cadmus, 1928. Oil on canvas, 16 x 12 1/8 in. (40.6 x 30.8 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Dick S. Ramsay Fund, 2007.28 (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 2007.28_PS2.jpg)
IMAGE
overall, 2007.28_PS2.jpg. Brooklyn Museum photograph, 2009
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