Roberto Marcello Baldessari (1894-1965) Figura con mantello rosso [Le Bistrot], 1921 signed R·M·BALDESSARI (lower right) and inscribed LE BISTROT (upper centre); signed, titled and dated Roberto Marcello Baldessari: 1921 figura con mantello rosso (on the reverse) oil on canvas 96.9 x 72 cm. 38 1/8 x 28 3/8 in. Fußnoten The authenticity of this work has kindly been confirmed by the Archivio Unico per il Catalogo delle Opere Futuriste di Roberto Marcello Baldessari. This work will be included in the forthcoming Roberto Marcello Baldessari catalogue raisonné, currently being prepared by Dott. Maurizio Scudiero. Provenance Salvatore Betti Collection, Rome/Buenos Aires Private Collection, Rome Private Collection, Italy Acquired directly from the above by the present owner Roberto Marcello Baldessari was one of the great figures of Italian Futurism, together with his fellow founders Giacomo Balla and Umberto Boccioni After his apprenticeship with Luigi Comel at the Scuola Reale Elisabettiana in Rovereto, Baldessari moved to Florence in 1915 where he first encountered and adhered to Futurist principles. During his stay in Florence he often visited the café Le Giubbe Rosse, a hotbed of Futurist activity, and collaborated with the Futurist magazines L'Italia Futurista and Roma Futurista!. During these years, he came to define his own personal pictorial style for which he would later be known. In 1918 Baldessari's style entered a phase of Cézannian influence, in which the lines started to soften, altering the intensity of the angular shapes and transforming the overwhelming plasticity through softer fringed brush strokes. This new technique is typified by Figura con mantello rosso. In the present work, the strong lines on the left side of the painting slowly lose their rigidity as they flow to the right, producing a captivating and partially abstract composition. Figura con mantello rosso is one of the last works to be considered strictly Futurist, before the artist moved towards a more figurative style in the early-1920s. We are grateful to Dott. Maurizio Scudiero for his assistance cataloguing this work.
Roberto Marcello Baldessari (1894-1965) Figura con mantello rosso [Le Bistrot], 1921 signed R·M·BALDESSARI (lower right) and inscribed LE BISTROT (upper centre); signed, titled and dated Roberto Marcello Baldessari: 1921 figura con mantello rosso (on the reverse) oil on canvas 96.9 x 72 cm. 38 1/8 x 28 3/8 in. Fußnoten The authenticity of this work has kindly been confirmed by the Archivio Unico per il Catalogo delle Opere Futuriste di Roberto Marcello Baldessari. This work will be included in the forthcoming Roberto Marcello Baldessari catalogue raisonné, currently being prepared by Dott. Maurizio Scudiero. Provenance Salvatore Betti Collection, Rome/Buenos Aires Private Collection, Rome Private Collection, Italy Acquired directly from the above by the present owner Roberto Marcello Baldessari was one of the great figures of Italian Futurism, together with his fellow founders Giacomo Balla and Umberto Boccioni After his apprenticeship with Luigi Comel at the Scuola Reale Elisabettiana in Rovereto, Baldessari moved to Florence in 1915 where he first encountered and adhered to Futurist principles. During his stay in Florence he often visited the café Le Giubbe Rosse, a hotbed of Futurist activity, and collaborated with the Futurist magazines L'Italia Futurista and Roma Futurista!. During these years, he came to define his own personal pictorial style for which he would later be known. In 1918 Baldessari's style entered a phase of Cézannian influence, in which the lines started to soften, altering the intensity of the angular shapes and transforming the overwhelming plasticity through softer fringed brush strokes. This new technique is typified by Figura con mantello rosso. In the present work, the strong lines on the left side of the painting slowly lose their rigidity as they flow to the right, producing a captivating and partially abstract composition. Figura con mantello rosso is one of the last works to be considered strictly Futurist, before the artist moved towards a more figurative style in the early-1920s. We are grateful to Dott. Maurizio Scudiero for his assistance cataloguing this work.
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