Lot 34
  • 34

Alberto Magnelli

Estimate
100,000 - 150,000 EUR
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Description

  • Alberto Magnelli
  • Natura morta allo scaldino nero (Nature morte à la chaufferette noire)
  • firmato e datato 1914; firmato, intitolato NATURA MORTA ALLO SCALDINO NERO e datato Firenze 1914 sul retro
  • olio su tela
  • cm 69x54

Provenance

Collezione privata (acquistato direttamente dall'atista)
Asta Sotheby's, Milano, 24 maggio 2006, lotto 317
Ivi acquistato dall'attuale proprietario

Literature

Anne Maisonnier, Alberto Magnelli, L’œuvre peint, Paris 1975, n. 102, p. 66, illustrato 

Condition

This work appears to be in generally good overall condition. There are very minor traces of dirt along the lower edge to the right and to the left. There are few pin-pointed traces of soiling and mold lower left, barely visible under natural light. No traces of retouching appear to be visible under UV light.
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Catalogue Note

L'opera è accompagnata da attestato di libera circolazione

An export licence is available for this lot

Resta in essa [Nature Morte, 1914, scultura] il protagonismo dell'immagine della cosa, in una chiave tutta'altro che concettuale, a dispetto dell'insistenza tautologica. Come nei dipinti dello stesso anno, da un canto respiranti il gusto del quotidiano di intonazione tutta fiorentina, quale troviamo nei dipinti più tradizionali come in quelli più moderni, e persino cubisteggianti e futuristeggianti, di un Soffici o di un Rosai; dall'altro anche'essi carichi di suggestioni di derivazione francese, fauve-matissiana sopratutto, con risultati espressivi talora però quasi pre-pop, con un gusto personalissimo, e quasi grafico, della sintesi piatta dell'immagine, che - questa sì - fa pensare ai modi di autori ben più avanzati nel tempo. 

The centre of attention in this sculpture (Nature Morte 1914)  is the image of something perceived in a way that is not conceptual despite the tautological persistence. Similarly to the paintings executed in the same year that on one side recalls the Florentine taste found in the more traditional  paintings like the modern ones, and even the ones that enhance notes of Cubism or Futurism characteristic of  works by Soffici or Rosai; on the  other side, they are also full of suggestions of French derivation that recall Fauvism and Matisse, reaching with expressive results, sometimes nearly pre-pop, a very personal, almost graphic taste of the flat synthesis of the image, which reminds of methods of authors  advanced  over time.

Luciano Caramel, catalogo della mostra, Alberto Magnelli. Retrospettiva, Milano 2001-2002, p. 16-17