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Miss Bell

Luigi Frugone 1953 Genova - legato

Boldini, Giovanni

GAM 1524

Unità di misura: cm; Altezza: 205; Larghezza: 101

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XVIII Biennale di Venezia - Venezia - 1932

The work was bought by Luigi Frugone in 1926 from the dealer Ferruccio Stefani. In a letter, the collector does not hide his enthusiasm for the possession of the painting, for which he uses the adjective ‘unsurpassable’. The painting was actually destined for the Marquise Matilde Giustiniani Pallavicini Durazzo of Genoa, who wanted to start a collection of modern works of art. But Stefani did not give up proposing it to Luigi, due to the friendly and privileged relationship he had established with the industrialist, and sold it to him for 130,000 lire. In 1932, at the 18th Venice Biennale, on the occasion of the retrospective dedicated to Giovanni Boldini, "Miss Bell" was exhibited with the explicit indication of Luigi Frugone's ownership.

Povero ma superbo

Luigi Frugone 1928 Genova - legato

Cremona, Tranquillo

GAM1528

Unità di misura: cm; Altezza: 87.7; Larghezza: 67.2

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Tranquillo Cremona was, together with Luigi Conconi and the Russian sculptor Paolo Troubetzkoy, both present in the Frugone collections, an exponent par excellence of the Lombard Scapigliatura and of that anti-academic reaction that led Italian bohemian artists to prefer subjects connected to real, everyday life over great historical representations. Portraits, female figures and genre scenes became the favourite themes of the Scapigliati artists, who, in the field of painting, reached the dissolution of form for a free relationship between light and colour. In the case of this canvas, which appeared in a monograph of the artist with the title "Piccolo ciociaro" (Little Ciociaro), the socially inspired dissolution of the subject's forms is evident.

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