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  • In her petition, signed on 14 October, Severini asks Spain's government "to inform this court whether in your country there is an investigation into the existence of a systematic, widespread and deliberate plan designed to terrorise those Spaniards who supported representative government via their physical elmination, and of a plan of legalized disappearance of children whose identities were changed."

    Argentinian judge petitions Spain to try civil war crimes of Franco Giles Tremlett in Madrid 2010

  • Sotheby's sold all but five of its 55 works on offer at its Impressionist evening sale, highlighted by the Severini but also by Alberto Giacometti's 1948 bronze depicting three pencil-thin figures, "Trois hommes qui marchent I," which doubled its estimate by selling to an anonymous buyer for $18.5 million.

    Dead Artists 2008

  • All right, all right, back to Severini. sit; stand; jump; d. l.

    oatcake Diary Entry oatcake 2004

  • Concentrating on walking in a straight line, he went over to a door and punched a set of numbers into the - security console, heard the lock shoot back and pushed the door open on the investment side of his art collec - tion'the Rembrandt, the Titian, the Severini and the Boccioni, which his insurers insisted he kept housed in a secure room.

    The Bellini Bride Reid, Michelle 2002

  • But to acknowledge Osbert's choice of Severini, a creditable modernist whose work, radically different from Piper's, is now in the MOMA would considerably qualify Richardson's indictment of the Sitwells as pseudo-modernists….

    The Pettifogging Pit Brophy, James D. 1979

  • Severini was of course never a Cubist but a Futurist, and, by 1920, a discredited one.

    The Pettifogging Pit Brophy, James D. 1979

  • I have seen -- perhaps I should except some by Severini -- the drawing, whenever it becomes representative as it frequently does, is found to be in that soft and common convention brought into fashion by Besnard some thirty years ago, and much affected by Beaux-Art students ever since.

    Art Clive Bell 1922

  • While the work of Severini -- their most creditable representative -- is always to be found _chez_ Léonce

    Since Cézanne Clive Bell 1922

  • Paintings, drawings and sculptures, some dating to the 19th century, represent renowned artists like Antonio Donghi, Nino Costa, Giacomo Manzù, Gino Severini, and Giorgio de Chirico Via Francesco Crispi 24, galleriaartemodernaroma.it.

    NYT > Home Page By AMANDA RUGGERI 2012

  • Police officer Alex Oliveira says a homeless man who witnessed a purse theft found the artificial choppers at the crime scene in the southeastern town of Severini, Brazil.

    SFGate: Top News Stories 2011

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