Collector Alessandro Contini-Bonacossi is credited with interesting Samuel H. Kress in art collecting, and acted as a dealer for Kress. Contini-Bonacossi is the source of most of the Italian paintings in the Kress collection, selling Kress his first painting in 1927 and remaining Kress' exclusive source until 1936. Alessandro was married to Countess Victoria Contini-Bonacossi (1872-1949) and remarried after her death. Their home, the Villa Victoria in Florence, was sold after Alessandro's death in 1955.
Bibliography
1961
Walker, John. "A Note on the Samuel H. Kress Collection at the National Gallery of Art," in An Anthology of Paintings and Sculptures in the Samuel H. Kress Collection. London, 1961.
Perry, Marilyn. "Five-and-dime for millions: the Samuel H. Kress Collection." Apollo 133, no. 349 (March 1991): 157-160
1994
A Gift to America: Masterpieces of European Painting from the Samuel H. Kress Collection. Exh. cat. The North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Seattle Art Museum; The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 1994: 12-59.
1995
Zeri, Frederico. Confesso che ho sbagliato.Milan, 1995
