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\"Noci:<\/a><\/p>\n

Arturo Noci\u00a0<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Rome 1874<\/span>–<\/span>New York 1953<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Girl in profile<\/span><\/i>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

1916<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Pastel on paper, 54\u00a0<\/span>\u00d7<\/span>\u00a050 cm<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Signed and dated top left:\u00a0<\/span>\u201c<\/span>Arturo Noci 1916<\/span>\u201d<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Bibliography<\/span>: M. Fagiolo dell\u2019Arco, P. Spadini, L.\u00a0<\/span>Djokic<\/span>\u00a0(ed. by),\u00a0<\/span>Arturo Noci: un pittore tra Roma e New York 1874-1953<\/span><\/i>, Rome 1996, p. 106, no. 196; M. Carrera,\u00a0<\/span>Arturo Noci (1874-1953) tra Roma e New York: dal divisionismo aristocratico al ritratto borghese<\/span><\/i>, Rome 2016, p. 78, fig. 44.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Note: a photograph of the work can be found at the photographic foundation Archivio Arturo Noci (Rome).<\/p>\n

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Arturo Noci is now recognised as a figure of great importance in the artistic panorama of Rome in the first two decades of the twentieth century. The critic Ugo <\/span>Ojetti<\/span>, in his review of the Fine Art Exhibition of Milan in 1906, where the artist presented the nude\u00a0<\/span>Riflessi<\/span><\/i>\u00a0<\/span><\/i>d\u2019oro<\/span><\/i>\u00a0(today in the Galleria Nazionale\u00a0<\/span>d\u2019Arte<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>Moderna<\/span>\u00a0collections), stated that Noci could by that time consider himself \u00abthe greatest, if not the only Roman portraitist.\u00bb\u00a0<\/span>(U.\u00a0<\/span>Ojetti<\/span>,\u00a0<\/span>Attraverso l\u2019Esposizione: pittori e pitture<\/span><\/i>, in \u201cCorriere della Sera\u201d, 23 maggio 1906, p. 3).\u00a0<\/span>Particularly appreciated by the international aristocracy and the jet set of the time \u2013 his portrait of the diva of silent movies <\/span>Lyda<\/span>\u00a0Borelli was famous (1914, private collection) \u2013 for his modern and elegant painting, Arturo Noci had a thriving career as a portraitist that culminated in him moving to New York in 1923, where for thirty years he could count on the commissions of wealthy collectors from high society.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Although the artist carried out important portraits on commission from the very start of his career (for example the pastel\u00a0<\/span>Portrait\u00a0<\/span><\/i>or<\/span>\u00a0Portrait in Yellow<\/span><\/i>, received to acclaim at the Venice Biennale in 1905), unanimous written opinion associates the success of Noci the portraitist to the experience of the Roman \u201cSecession.\u201d When the disagreements in the \u201c<\/span>Societ\u00e0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>degli<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>Amatori<\/span>\u00a0e\u00a0<\/span>Cultori<\/span>\u00a0di\u00a0<\/span>Belle Arti\u201d led to a certain artists re-grouping to show autonomously in large international exhibitions, thus giving life to the \u201cSecession,\u201d Arturo Noci was in the front line and on the board of directors from the start. Without a doubt the initiative was fuelled by a desire to update the artistic milieu of the capital, by then considered excessively provincial. However,\u00a0<\/span>Noci\u2019s<\/span>\u00a0search for modernity was somewhat moderate and, as was the case for many of his Secessionist colleagues, it found fulfilment in the haven of the\u00a0<\/span>divisionist<\/span>\u00a0technique, at that time back in favour among Roman painters. The divided touch was therefore used for the most part in the representation of interior scenes of an intimist flavour and in elegant portraits. Belonging to this phase is the expressive\u00a0<\/span>Girl in Profile:\u00a0<\/span><\/i>not a commissioned portrait, but an inspired figure study of one of his favourite models, painted at\u00a0<\/span>Noci\u2019s<\/span>\u00a0studio in via\u00a0<\/span>Margutta<\/span>. The work is part of a rich series of portraits of women carried out in pastel, all characterised by a rapid and impressive rendering in which completed areas alternate with swiftly sketched areas, and by a filamentary style that seems to echo the\u00a0<\/span>divisionist<\/span>\u00a0paintings of the same period. In 1916, the year in which Noci produced this pastel, the fourth Roman \u201cSecession\u201d exhibition was held; it would also be the last, due to the outbreak of war. However, the hiatus of the Great War did not damage the\u00a0<\/span>Noci\u2019s<\/span>\u00a0artistic activity: on the contrary, he took to experimenting with more audacious visual formulae, stimulated by a re-found creativity. These are the years in which the painter\u00a0<\/span>gives attentive consideration to<\/span>\u00a0the developments of international art, in particular German, which he actualises in a greater attention to drawing and fulfilled artistic maturity.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Manuel Carrera<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Arturo Noci\u00a0\u00a0 Rome 1874–New York 1953\u00a0 Girl in profile\u00a0 1916\u00a0 Pastel on paper, 54\u00a0\u00d7\u00a050 cm\u00a0 Signed and dated top left:\u00a0\u201cArturo Noci 1916\u201d\u00a0 Bibliography: M. Fagiolo dell\u2019Arco, P. Spadini, L.\u00a0Djokic\u00a0(ed. by),\u00a0Arturo Noci: un pittore tra Roma e New York 1874-1953, Rome 1996, p. 106, no. 196; M. Carrera,\u00a0Arturo Noci (1874-1953) tra Roma e New York: dal…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":9041,"template":"","autore":[367],"tipologia_opera":[96],"ambito_opera":[82],"data_opera":[368],"disponibilita_opera":[],"titolo_mostra":[362],"tag_mostra":[363],"class_list":["post-9065","opera","type-opera","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","autore-arturo-noci-1874-1953","tipologia_opera-recent-sells","ambito_opera-pittura-en","data_opera-368","titolo_mostra-law-digital-summer-2020","tag_mostra-law-digital-summer-2020","description-off"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carlovirgilio.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/opera\/9065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carlovirgilio.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/opera"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carlovirgilio.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/opera"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlovirgilio.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carlovirgilio.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"autore","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlovirgilio.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/autore?post=9065"},{"taxonomy":"tipologia_opera","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlovirgilio.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tipologia_opera?post=9065"},{"taxonomy":"ambito_opera","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlovirgilio.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ambito_opera?post=9065"},{"taxonomy":"data_opera","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlovirgilio.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/data_opera?post=9065"},{"taxonomy":"disponibilita_opera","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlovirgilio.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/disponibilita_opera?post=9065"},{"taxonomy":"titolo_mostra","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlovirgilio.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/titolo_mostra?post=9065"},{"taxonomy":"tag_mostra","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlovirgilio.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tag_mostra?post=9065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}