Piero Marussig – Interior with Masks (and Self-Portrait)

Piero Marussig  Trieste 1879-Pavia 1937  Interior with Masks (and Self-Portrait)  1925  Oil on panel, 49.8 × 44.9 cm  Signed: “P. Marussig”  Provenance: Padua, private collection  Bibliography: Alessandra Tiddia, Pietro Marussig, Trieste, 2015, cat. 410.    Internationally trained painter, Marussig studied in Vienna, Munich, Rome and Paris and took part in all the most important collective exhibitions of his time in Italy and abroad. Influenced by the Jugendstil –…

Alberto Martini – The Holy Thorns

Alberto Martini (Oderzo 1876-Milan 1954) The Holy Thorns 1897 China pen on paper, affixed to paper support, 158 x 345 mm Signed and dated lower right on title block: AMartini 97; signed, dated and inscribed on the support, lower left to right, in pen: “ALBERTO MARTINI. 1897. | LE SPINE SANTE | “IL POEMA DEL…

Elica Balla – Inspiration 

Elica Balla Rome 1914-1995  Inspiration  1941  Oil and sand on panel, 78 × 60 cm  Signed bottom right: “ELICA BALLA”. Titled and dated on the back: “Inspiration / Spring 1941”  Provenance: Italy, private collection    Like his sister Luce, Elica carried in her name the futurist blessing of their father Giacomo, who in 1914, the year of her birth, introduced…

Galileo Chini – Self-Portrait 

Galileo Chini Florence 1873-1956  Self-Portrait  1933  Oil on panel, 60 × 50 cm  Signed at bottom: “GALILEO.CHINI.PIT.CER.FIORENTINO.1933”  Provenance: Finarte, Rome, 28-29 April 1987; Farsetti, Prato, 10 October 1997; Rome, private collection    A long way from the decorativism of a Secessionist stamp with which he passed the first decades of the twentieth century, reaching high levels of Liberty and Déco expression, in this self-portrait, with…

Mirko (Basaldella) – Portrait of Leoncillo

Mirko (Basaldella) Udine 1910-Cambridge, Mass. 1969  Portrait of Leoncillo   1953/54  Iron, 51,5 × 24,5 × 18 cm (with the plynth h 67 cm)  Exhibition label on the back: “33”  Provenance: Rome, private collection; Rome, Ovidio Jacorossi collection; Rome, private collection  Bibliography: Barbara Tiberi, in Dal Simbolismo all’Astrazione. Il primo Novecento a Roma nella collezione Jacorossi, edited by Enrico Crispolti, Rome 2017, pp. 140-141.   Exhibition: Rome, Musia, 1 dicembre 2017 – 1 gennaio 2018, ​Dal Simbolismo all’astrazione. Il primo Novecento a Roma nella…

Noci: profilo donna

Arturo Noci – Girl in profile 

Arturo Noci   Rome 1874–New York 1953  Girl in profile  1916  Pastel on paper, 54 × 50 cm  Signed and dated top left: “Arturo Noci 1916”  Bibliography: M. Fagiolo dell’Arco, P. Spadini, L. Djokic (ed. by), Arturo Noci: un pittore tra Roma e New York 1874-1953, Rome 1996, p. 106, no. 196; M. Carrera, Arturo Noci (1874-1953) tra Roma e New York: dal…

Luigi Trifoglio – Portrait of the Surgeon Gino Pieri 

Luigi Trifoglio Rome 1888-1939  Portrait of the Surgeon Gino Pieri  1931  Oil on canvas, 130.5 × 109.5 cm  Signed: “Trifoglio Roma 1931”  Bibliography: Gino Pieri, “Luigi Trifoglio ritrattista di medici”, in Nicia. Rivista medica d’arte e varietà, A. X, n. 7-8, Milano 1940, pp. 5-9 (ill.); “Un ritrattista di medici Luigi Trifoglio”, L’artista moderno. Rivista d’arte pura e applicata, 1942, pp. 11-12 (ill.).     Interpreter of the return…