{"id":9614,"date":"2021-06-30T18:58:17","date_gmt":"2021-06-30T16:58:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.carlovirgilio.it\/?post_type=opera&p=9614"},"modified":"2021-06-30T18:58:17","modified_gmt":"2021-06-30T16:58:17","slug":"paolo-troubetzkoy-gabriele-dannunzio","status":"publish","type":"opera","link":"https:\/\/www.carlovirgilio.it\/en\/opera\/paolo-troubetzkoy-gabriele-dannunzio\/","title":{"rendered":"Paolo Troubetzkoy – Gabriele D\u2019Annunzio"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Paolo Troubetzkoy<\/p>\n

Intra 1866 – Suna 1937<\/p>\n

Gabriele D\u2019Annunzio<\/em><\/p>\n

1911<\/p>\n

Bronze, lost wax, with dark patina, 43 x 31 x 32 cm<\/p>\n

Signed and dated at base: \u201cPaul Troub[…] 1911\u201d; foundry stamp: \u201cC. Valsuani Cire Perdue\u201d<\/p>\n

Provenance: Italy, private collection<\/p>\n

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The long-lasting friendship between D\u2019Annunzio and Troubetzkoy, witnessed by their meetings, correspondence and a poetical dedication from D\u2019Annunzio to the sculptor, was punctuated by two portraits.<\/p>\n

The already established writer was depicted in the youthful bust in Naples in 1892, when Troubetzkoy was entering the competition for the monument to Garibaldi. D\u2019Annunzio praised his sketch in the \u201cMattino\u201d as \u201cthe best of all\u201d those put forward, due to the converging of \u201cpurposes\u201d and the mastery of \u201cfeatures,\u201d with nothing ornamental, in the sublime hero\u2019s head, through the simplicity of the pyramidal shape. (D\u2019Annunzio 2003). The portrait was carried out in the open air \u201con a terrace in Mergellina\u201d for the Contessa Marine de B\u00e9arn (Gardone Riviera, Fondazione \u201cIl Vittoriale degli Italiani\u201d, cfr. Paola Pizzamano, in Gli scultori di D\u2019Annunzio <\/em>2015, pp. 200-203). In its rapid and rugged modelling, the work fully interpreted the capture of light and spatial ephemera demonstrated by the Lombard Scapigliatura, based on the formal reflection not only of Troubetzkoy, but also Medardo Rosso.<\/p>\n

The depiction of the poet seated in full figure was carried out later in Paris, where both writer and sculptor had moved and where, in 1911, D\u2019Annunzio put on his play Le Martyre de Saint S\u00e9bastien<\/em>, set to the music of Claude Debussy, with stage design by L\u00e9on Bakst and Ida Rubistein as protagonist, at which we know Troubetzkoy made an appearance from one of his letters conserved in the poet\u2019s archive.<\/p>\n

It was in that year that D\u2019Annunzio posed for his friend in the famous studio at Neuilly-sur-Seine, where Troubetzkoy, by now prince and sculptor of great fame, from Russia to the Americas, received cosmopolitan high society. This time the sculptor underlined the poet\u2019s elegance and meditative attitude. And in the reduced format of the portrait, the sketch-like style of the Scapigliatura, he referenced the results of international impressionism and dialogued with the essential paradigm of Rodin, as the figure emerges from the phenomenal shapelessness of the setting.<\/p>\n

D\u2019Annunzio modelled then, as a \u201ccaricature sitting in an armchair\u201d \u2013 according to the term in the artistic tradition used by the sculptor\u2019s son Luigi (Troubetzkoy s.d., p. 27) \u2013 was comparable to the virtuosic and worldly force of Boldini\u2019s portraits. A visitor of the Secessione romana <\/em>of 1913 could read this attitude of elegance with subtlety: \u201cthe full body statuette in bronze, today exhibited in Rome, is an elegant work in which the man of the world is portrayed with grace rather than as the indefatigable \u2018worker of words\u2019 (\u201cL\u2019Illustrazione Italiana\u201d, n. 16, aprile 1913, p. 386).<\/p>\n

The original plaster model of this portrait is conserved at the Gipsoteca Troubetzkoy at the Museo del Paesaggio di Verbania Pallanza (cfr. Piergiovanni Castagnoli, in Paolo Troubetzkoy<\/em> 1988, pp. 102-105; Stefania Frezzotti, in Paolo Troubetzkoy<\/em> 1990, cat. 154, p. 199; Anne Pingeot, in Italie 1880-1910<\/em> 2000, cat. 39, p. 154). In 1952 a bronze version of the work, belonging to the surveyor Gagliardi, was exhibited at Pallanza. Since that date, the version shown here is the first to be revealed to experts, fused in lost wax by the famous Parisian foundry of Claude Valsuani. We do not know if the artist originally made more bronze copies or just this one. In any case, the work found immediate and substantial success, being exhibited in the bronze version in Buffalo in 1911, in Toledo, Ohio and at the Salon de Paris the following year, at the Permanente in Milan and the Secessione romana<\/em> in 1813, and again, among numerous other occasions, at the Venice Biennale of 1922.<\/p>\n

Stefano Grandesso<\/p>\n

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Bibliography da inserire in quella generale<\/p>\n

Paolo Troubetzkoy <\/em>1988<\/p>\n

Paolo Troubetzkoy scultore. Verbania, 1866-1938<\/em>, Intra 1988<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Paolo Troubetzkoy <\/em>1990<\/p>\n

Paolo Troubetzkoy 1866-1938<\/em>, exhibition catalogue, Verbania Pallanza, Museo del Paesaggio, Palazzo Viani Dugnani, ed. by Gianna Piantoni and Paolo Venturoli, Turin 1990.<\/p>\n

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Italie 1880-1910 <\/em>2000<\/p>\n

Italie 1880-1910. Arte alla prova della modernit\u00e0<\/em>, catalogo della mostra, Roma, Galleria Nazionale d\u2019Arte Moderna; Parigi, Mus\u00e9e d\u2019Orsay, ed. by Gianna Piantoni and Anne Pingeot, Turin 2000.<\/p>\n

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Troubetzkoy s.d.<\/p>\n

Luigi Troubetzkoy, P. Troubetzkoy nel Museo di Pallanza<\/em>, Milano s.d.<\/p>\n

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D\u2019Annunzio 2003<\/p>\n

Gabriele D\u2019Annunzio, Per il monumento al Generale Garibaldi<\/em>, in \u201cIl Mattino\u201d, 12-13 luglio 1892, now in Gabriele D\u2019Annunzio, Scritti giornalistici 1889-1938<\/em>, vol. II, ed. by and with an introduction by Annamaria Andreoli, texts collected by Giorgio Zanetti, Milan 2003, pp. 40-41<\/p>\n

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Gli scultori di D\u2019Annunzio <\/em>2015<\/p>\n

Gli scultori di D\u2019Annunzio. Anima e materia<\/em>, exhibition catalogue, Gardone Riviera, Fondazione \u201cIl Vittoriale degli Italiani\u201d, ed. by Vittorio Sgarbi and Alfonso Panzetta, Cinisello Balsamo 2015.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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