Marco Borgianni : Tête de femme (Head of a Woman), 1990 (Pencil and sanguine)

By BORGIANNI Marco (1946–2022)

Marco Borgianni (1946–2022)
Tête de femme (Head of a Woman), June 1990
Pencil and sanguine
Dedicated, signed and dated by hand, lower right: “Per Christine e Yves, con sincera simpatia”, signed “Marco Borgianni”, dated 06/90

Dimensions:
Sheet 29.7 × 21 cm (11 ⅝ × 8 ¼ in.) — Image: nearly the full sheet

Condition: good condition, unframed

Provenance: Livre d’Or de Yves Guérin, compiled 1963–1992 (single-owner provenance). Dedicated in Italian to “Christine and Yves” in June 1990 — the same month as the Bonnefoit sheet (no. 31), suggesting a shared occasion.

Description: A sensitive, melancholic head of a young woman, the face delicately modelled in graphite with soft sfumato and warm sanguine accents in the hair and around the cheek, the eyes downcast and dreaming, a wide-brimmed hat lightly suggested. Marco Borgianni was a Tuscan painter and sculptor born at Vico d’Elsa in 1946, trained at the Istituto d’Arte of Siena and the Accademia di Belle Arti of Florence; a figurative artist devoted both to landscape and to the human figure, reinterpreting the classical and Renaissance sculptural tradition, he exhibited internationally (Paris 1984–88, Geneva 1988–93) and painted the Palio banner of Siena in 1997. Signed, dated and dedicated by hand.

Price : 150,00 € ( 170.00 USD )