L'amazzone

Luigi Frugone 1953 Genova - legato

Tito, Ettore

GAM1571

Unità di misura: cm; Altezza: 208; Larghezza: 128

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This canvas portrays Tito's wife, Lucia, together with her horse and the family greyhound, Furio, after a ride. The work is very large - it measures more than 2 metres in height - and has been redesigned by the artist over the years. In the first version, the painting was more developed on the left side, where the horse's body was totally outlined and set back against the background. The artist then cut the canvas on three sides, including the height, removing a leg, part of the flank and the tip of the horse's ears, while also reducing the tree and the meadow on the right side. Tito framed and pushed the scene into the foreground by introducing a fence. This element, delimiting the foreground occupied by the dog, which is separated from the plane occupied by the woman and her horse, punctuates the scene, which achieves an overall compositional unity of great expressive power.