Quattro donne (Four Women)
1948
Marino Marini's 'Quattro donne' from 1948 is a mixed-media work on paper featuring pen, brush, ink, gouache, crayon, and pencil. The composition depicts four women rendered in the artist's modernist style, combining multiple drawing and painting techniques to create depth and visual interest.
- Medium
- pen and brush and ink, gouache, crayon and pencil on paper
- Location
- Sotheby's, New York, NY
- Spotted At
- Auction House · Sotheby'sView on map
🔨 Auction Lot
Impressionist & Modern Art Day Sale Including Works from the Collection of Marina Picasso
March 19, 2021
Estimate: $10,000 to $15,000
Lot 332
Artists in conversation
Ossip Zadkine
Russian-French · b. 1890
Zadkine created expressive figurative works on paper combining ink, gouache, and mixed media with a modernist post-war sensibility very similar to Marini's approach in this piece. His treatment of the female nude in gestural, layered drawing techniques closely mirrors the visual language seen in Quattro donne.
Renato Guttuso
Italian · b. 1911
Guttuso was an Italian modernist who frequently depicted groups of figures including female nudes using bold ink, gouache, and mixed drawing media in an expressive, gestural post-war style. His figurative compositions on paper share the same combination of materials and Italian modernist sensibility as this Marini work.
Hans Hartung
German-French · b. 1904
Hartung worked extensively with pen, ink, and mixed media on paper in the late 1940s, producing gestural figurative and semi-abstract works that share the expressive post-war energy and layered technique visible in Marini's Quattro donne. His mixed media drawings from this same period reflect a closely parallel modernist European approach.
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