Glove Puppets

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    Zagreb
    Rudolf Sablic
    1945
    Oil on canvas
    48.5 x 37 cm

    Two glove puppets, a male and a female. The male puppet is wearing a partisan cap. Painted in dark brown and ochre colours. Signed in the top left-hand corner: R. Sablic 945. At the back with red paint: Rudolf Sablic / Lutke.

    Acquired after 1965 from Rudolf Sablic in Zagreb.

    S. Mateljan, Likovna umjetnost u narodnoj revoluciji, (catalogue), Zagreb, 1965;

    V. Buzancic: Rudolf Sablic, (catalogue of retrospective exhibition), Zagreb, 1983, page 69.

    Both authors cite this painting as 'Ghignoli' or 'Guignoli'.


    HPM/MRNH-001639


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