ARMANDO SPADINI | Turkeys and hens

Collection Raffaelle Bastianelli, Rome, in 1927
Edmondo Sacerdoti Gallery, Milan

XIV Esposizione internazionale d'Arte della Città di Venezia, Venice, 1924, n°37 titled Gallinacci

Adolfo Venturi, Armando Spadini, Milan 1927, n°333, menntioned with the title Tacchini e polli

This work is in good condition. The canvas has been strip-lined along all four tacking edges, apparently retaining the original stretcher. There is some scattered faint craquelure. Ultra-violet light reveals some minor strokes of retouching notably in the tail of the large white turkey and scattered along the framing edges; some very faint fluorescence is visible elsewhere in the turkey's body however this appears to correspond to the varnish. The colours are somewhat less yellow-orange overall in reality than in the illustration.
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probably executed circa 1919.