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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.

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Autumn

De Albertis Edoardo 8 marzo 1926 Liguria/ GE/ Genova - acquisto

De Albertis, Edoardo

GAM0462

Unità di misura: cm; Altezza: 195; Larghezza: 45; Profondità: 54

fusione in bronzo

The large bronze, inspired by Michelangelo, was designed for the Italian pavilion in the International Exhibition of Modern Decorative and Industrial Arts inaugurated in 1925 in Paris. The work supported the architrave of the entrance to the Ligurian Hall. The sculpture corresponds to the symbolist poetics that had denoted all the artist's previous production, which with Plinio Nomellini and C. Roccatagliata Ceccardi, had become a point of reference for the city's cultural and artistic circles. One of the sculptor's most important achievements remains the "Arte del Sogno" (Art of Dream) room designed for the 7th Venice Biennale in 1907, with the collaboration of his friend Nomellini, Galileo Chini and Gaetano Previati: it is the highest expression of the creation of an environment in which sculpture, painting and applied arts merge. One of the sculptor's most important achievements remains the Sala dell'Arte del Sogno designed for the 7th Venice Biennale in 1907, with the collaboration of his friend Nomellini, Galileo Chini and Gaetano Previati, the utmost expression of the creation of an environment in which sculpture, painting and applied arts merge. bronze sculpture

Gli ultimi momenti di Carlo Emanuele I di Savoia

Umberto I post 1891 Genova - donazione

Barabino, Nicolò

GAM 22

Unità di misura: cm; Altezza: 254; Larghezza: 372

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Società Promotrice di Belle Arti - Genova - post 1891

Nicolò Barabino commemorates the death of Charles Emmanuel I of Savoy, the ambitious duke who wrested possessions from France in the 17th century and was considered an example to follow in the fight against "the foreigner". The imposing painting was commissioned by Umberto I and then donated to the city of Genoa in 1891, to honour the memory of the artist who suddenly died that year. Unfortunately left unfinished, with the signs of the underlying drawing still evident, it clearly documents the artist's progressive approach to the suggestions of symbolism.

Ritratto di fanciulla

XVII Biennale Internazionale di Venezia 1930 Venezia - acquisto

Casorati, Felice

GAM0583

Unità di misura: cm; Altezza: 100; Larghezza: 69; Varie: Misure con cornice: cm 112 x 813

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The 'Portrait of a Girl' represents, to a high degree, that atmosphere of melancholy and suspension of time that characterises Casorati's art. The girl is portrayed from an elevated viewpoint and with a framing that cuts off the figure above the knees. She seems to stare at the void indifferent to what is happening around her with an absent expression, surrounded by everyday objects such as a small flowerpot, a watering can and, on the opposite side, a tea towel. The original grey frame echoes and amplifies the cold tones of the painting.
On the reverse side, evidently repudiated by the artist, are painted a female nude and two sketched figures, one of which is seen from behind, which are outlined against the background occupied by a page, in the unmistakable pink colour, of the sports newspaper "Gazzetta dello Sport".