Lot:
210
55th Contemporary and International Art Auction
3rd Session: Local Art of Friuli V.G.
Framed
Dedication "Villa Strolhn Fern 1969, all'amico Carlo Levi" on the reverse. Label of Arte Fiera di Bologna 1994 on the reverse. Stamp Archivio Galleria Il Fauno, Roma.
Rare testimony of the cultural and artistic climate that wafted in Villa Strohl Fern; the oasis in Rome, founded by the Alsatian patron Alfred Wilhelm Strohl, home of the "Scuola Romana", immersed in the green of Villa Borghese and that hosted the artists Cipriano Efisio Oppo, Francesco Trombadori, Amedeo Bocchi, Arturo Martini, Carlo Socrate, Virgilio Guidi, Anton Giulio Bragaglia, Carlo Levi and the Friulians Angilotto Modotto and Giuseppe Ciotti (Udine 1898- Rome 1991), as well as musicians and scholars, among whom Rainer Maria Rilke.
This work by Ciotti, the “solitary modern Michelangelo”, a futurist at first (with the pseudonyms "Futurciotti" and "Agibeci Futurista") but later a follower of the style of Novecento, bears signature and dedication "Villa Strohl Fern 1969_ all'amico Carlo Levi,...” on the reverse.
Signed and dated bottom right
Price:
500 €
+ buyer's premium
24%
plus shipment costs