Acrobats four-panel screen

Lithographic transfer-print on lacquered wood and brass on casters
53 3/4  x 13 3/4  x 1 1/8  in. (136.5 x 34.9 x 2.9 cm) for each panel
The reverse decorated with "Canna" pattern

Provenance:
Collection of the artist
Thence by descent
Christie's Los Angeles, Important Design, The Life of Fornasetti, May 16, 1998, lot 145
Acquired from the above by the present owner

Exhibited:
Piero Fornasetti, Landesgewerbeamt, Kaiserlautern, Germany, 1962
Piero Fornasetti:  Memorie E Illusioni, Nuova Galleria, Parma, April, 9-April 30, 1989
Fornasetti:  Designer of Dreams, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, October 2, 1991-January 19, 1992

Literature:
Piero Fornasetti, exh. cat., Landesgewerbeamt, Kaiserlautern, Germany, 1962, n.p.
Piero Fornasetti:  Memorie E Illusioni, exh. cat., Parma, Italy, 1989, n.p. 
Patrick Mauries, Fornasetti:  Designer of Dreams, exh. cat., Victoria & Albert Museum, London, 1991, pp. 216-217
Barnaba Fornasetti, Fornasetti: The Complete Universe, New York, 2010, pp. 402 and 424-425