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RED SILK DAMASKGenoa (?), early XVIII Century

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RED SILK DAMASK
Genoa (?), early XVIII Century

Red silk damask, leaves and flower bouquets
240W x 52H cm

Condition grade B

Provenance: Adolph Loewi, Venice, Inventory number 8482; Alessandro Morandotti, Palazzo Massimo alle Colonne, Rome

Adolph Loewi (Munich, Germany 1888 - 1977 Hawaii, U.S.A.), honorary German consul in Venice in 1923, was a dealer of paintings, sculpture, and decorative arts. He was the leading dealer of textiles and costumes, selling to major collectors and museums in the U.S.A and Europe.
Much of LACMA’s (Los Angeles County Museum of Art) rich textile collection and its extensive archive of documentation related to the field came from Loewi.

A German Jew, he established his business in Venice in 1911 and a branch in New York in 1933-34.
In early 1939 he left Italy with his family; they brought with them personal possessions and much of their stock.
Settling first in New York, they moved to Beverly Hills in the Summer of 1939. In Los Angeles the firm of Adolph Loewi, Inc., was divided; the textile business became known as Loewi-Robertson and was directed by his daughter and son-in-law.

Adolph Loewi probably acquired the fabric here proposed before the second world war. According to Katherine Loewi Robertson, daughter of Adolph Loewi, and, with her husband, successor to his firm, works of art acquired in Venice before the second world war have stock numbers below 9300.

The director of Loewi's gallery of art, was Mr. Alessandro Morandotti (1909-1979).
According to Katherine Loewi Robertson, Morandotti resigned a position at La Scala in 1936 rather than wear the black shirt of the Fascists. Impressed by Morandotti’s integrity, Adolph Loewi hired him as the director of his antiques firm in Venice.
When Loewi, a Jew, fled Italy in early 1939, he turned the firm over to Morandotti for safekeeping.

Morandotti moved to Rome, where he established the firm as 'Antiquaria', concealing the fact that it continued to be owned by a Jew.
After the war, Morandotti returned the firm to Loewi, who sold it to Morandotti in 1950.

According to Katherine Loewi Robertson, the items of his father's gallery with the stocks number after 9300 indicates that they were acquired by Morandotti in Rome during and after the war
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