ARMANDO SPADINI | Bulls

Emmanuele Fiano Collection
Pesaro Gallery, Milan Purchased by the grandfather of the present owners, probably from the above.

Primaverile Fiorentina, Florence 1921
XIV Esposizione internazionale d'Arte della Città di Venezia, Venice, 1924, n°1
Mostra celebrativa di Armando Spadini, Galleria Gian Ferrarri, Milan, March-April 1946, n°4

Mentioned in the autograph catalogue, as executed on 1911;
Adolfo Venturi, Armando Spadini, Milan, 1927, pl.28, illustrated
Armando Spadini, article in "A.B.C rivista d'Arte", N°XV, mai 1937, mentioned
Leonardo Borgese et Orio Vergani, Spadini, Nella vita e nelle opere, Milan 1946, illustrated pl.IV
Enrico Somaré, La raccolta Fiano, galerie Pesaro, Milan, n°128 in the catalogue, illustrated pl.27

Oil on canvas laid down on panel. There is an old crease in the canvas in the upper right and some scattered spots of paint flaking primarily towards the upper-left corner (visible in the illustration). Ultra-violet light reveals some fluorescence which likely corresponds to unevenness in the varnish rather than retouching (such as a spot below the head of the upper adult bull). The work could benefit from a surface clean.
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Executed circa 1909