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Auction archive: Lot number 171

Scuola Romana. 20th Century Expressionism in Rome

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€320
ca. US$388
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Auction archive: Lot number 171

Scuola Romana. 20th Century Expressionism in Rome

Opening
€320
ca. US$388
Price realised:
n. a.
Beschreibung:

PERICLE FAZZINI Grottammare, 1913 - Roma, 1987 Crouching Woman, 1959 Marker on paper, 46 x 33 cm Signed, inscribed and dated lower right: Pericle Fazzini Roma, 1959 BIOGRAPHY: Born in Grottammare, in the province of Ascoli Piceno, on May 4, 1913 by Vittorio and Maria. Very young, he began working in the family carpentry, alongside his numerous brothers, learning to carve wood and devoting himself to sculpture in his spare moments. Around 1929 the poet Mario Rivosecchi, a fellow countryman of Pericles and a family friend, convinces his father to indulge his precocious talent, sending him to study in Rome. Fazzini moved to Rome in 1930, starting to attend courses at the free school of the nude and to observe Baroque sculpture.Among his first friends we find the painter Alberto Ziveri with whom he shared his first studies and some initial experiences (note the participation in the IV Triennale of Monza, 1930, where the two collaborated with the rationalist architect Luigi Moretti in the construction of the poet's house). In 1931 Fazzini won the competition for a monument to Cardinal Dusmet (never built, the sketch is in Catania, Palazzo degli Archives). His interests extend to modern sculpture: in his notes there are traces of a youthful admiration for Rodin, Bourdelle and Maillol. In 1932 with the bas-relief Exit from the ark he won the competition for the national artistic pensioner, which guaranteed for two years a decent monthly and the use of a study on the Capitol. It is the beginning of a very intense period of work whose first fruits appear in January 1933 in an exhibition at the gallery of Dario Sabatello, held together with Alberto Ziveri and Giuseppe Grassi. The exhibition has a remarkable critical success: it is compared for its impact on the Roman environment to that of Mafai and Scipione held three years earlier at the Galleria in Rome and gets favorable reviews from Piero Scarpa, Corrado Cagli Alberto Neppi, Dario Sabatello. In February Fazzini exhibits again at the Circolo delle Arti, obtaining new critical feedback from Cipriano Efisio Oppo and Giuseppe Pensabene. His friendships expanded in the Roman environment: through Giuseppe Ungaretti he met Marguerite Caetani, princess of Bassiano and animator of the magazine "Commerce", who in 1934 invited him to participate in a group show in Paris (together with E.Vuillard, P-Bonnard, D. deSegonzac, A.Masson, C.Cagli) One of the three wooden sculptures sent (the Portrait of Anita) was purchased by the Musée Jeu de Paume. This period of success culminated in 1935 with the participation in the II Quadrennial of National Art: the two high-reliefs Danza and Tempesta aroused considerable emotion and obtained a prize of 10,000 lire. Although the artist's talent is expressed in these works with the utmost freedom of means, their energy also convinces critics of a traditionalist orientation such as Margherita Sarfatti and Emilio Cecchi: "Fazzini - writes the latter - makes his debut as the seventeen-year-old Michelangelo of the scuffle of centaurs, but on surfaces ten times as much "(in" Circoli ", Rome, 1935, III). After participating in the Art Italien des XIX et XX siècles exhibition (Paris, Jeu de Paume) and at the Littoriali dell'arte Fazzini, he receives an invitation to participate in the Venice Biennale, but unexpectedly the Pensionato Artistico decides not to renew his scholarship , thus putting him in front of serious economic difficulties. 1935- 1943 "Moments of solitude" The years between 1935 and 1938 are quite difficult. With the money from the prize won at the four-year anniversary, the sculptor rented the studio in via Margutta where he worked for the rest of his life. He isolates himself from the Roman artistic environment, creating some of his greatest masterpieces in solitude, such as the Portrait of Ungaretti and the Dancer and participating in public exhibitions with works of lesser commitment, sometimes linked to the themes of propaganda to the regime.

Auction archive: Lot number 171
Auction:
Datum:
12 Feb 2021
Auction house:
Bertolami Fine Arts
Piazza Lovatelli 1
00186 Rom
Italy
info@bertolamifinearts.com
+39 06 3260 9795
+39 06 3230 610
Beschreibung:

PERICLE FAZZINI Grottammare, 1913 - Roma, 1987 Crouching Woman, 1959 Marker on paper, 46 x 33 cm Signed, inscribed and dated lower right: Pericle Fazzini Roma, 1959 BIOGRAPHY: Born in Grottammare, in the province of Ascoli Piceno, on May 4, 1913 by Vittorio and Maria. Very young, he began working in the family carpentry, alongside his numerous brothers, learning to carve wood and devoting himself to sculpture in his spare moments. Around 1929 the poet Mario Rivosecchi, a fellow countryman of Pericles and a family friend, convinces his father to indulge his precocious talent, sending him to study in Rome. Fazzini moved to Rome in 1930, starting to attend courses at the free school of the nude and to observe Baroque sculpture.Among his first friends we find the painter Alberto Ziveri with whom he shared his first studies and some initial experiences (note the participation in the IV Triennale of Monza, 1930, where the two collaborated with the rationalist architect Luigi Moretti in the construction of the poet's house). In 1931 Fazzini won the competition for a monument to Cardinal Dusmet (never built, the sketch is in Catania, Palazzo degli Archives). His interests extend to modern sculpture: in his notes there are traces of a youthful admiration for Rodin, Bourdelle and Maillol. In 1932 with the bas-relief Exit from the ark he won the competition for the national artistic pensioner, which guaranteed for two years a decent monthly and the use of a study on the Capitol. It is the beginning of a very intense period of work whose first fruits appear in January 1933 in an exhibition at the gallery of Dario Sabatello, held together with Alberto Ziveri and Giuseppe Grassi. The exhibition has a remarkable critical success: it is compared for its impact on the Roman environment to that of Mafai and Scipione held three years earlier at the Galleria in Rome and gets favorable reviews from Piero Scarpa, Corrado Cagli Alberto Neppi, Dario Sabatello. In February Fazzini exhibits again at the Circolo delle Arti, obtaining new critical feedback from Cipriano Efisio Oppo and Giuseppe Pensabene. His friendships expanded in the Roman environment: through Giuseppe Ungaretti he met Marguerite Caetani, princess of Bassiano and animator of the magazine "Commerce", who in 1934 invited him to participate in a group show in Paris (together with E.Vuillard, P-Bonnard, D. deSegonzac, A.Masson, C.Cagli) One of the three wooden sculptures sent (the Portrait of Anita) was purchased by the Musée Jeu de Paume. This period of success culminated in 1935 with the participation in the II Quadrennial of National Art: the two high-reliefs Danza and Tempesta aroused considerable emotion and obtained a prize of 10,000 lire. Although the artist's talent is expressed in these works with the utmost freedom of means, their energy also convinces critics of a traditionalist orientation such as Margherita Sarfatti and Emilio Cecchi: "Fazzini - writes the latter - makes his debut as the seventeen-year-old Michelangelo of the scuffle of centaurs, but on surfaces ten times as much "(in" Circoli ", Rome, 1935, III). After participating in the Art Italien des XIX et XX siècles exhibition (Paris, Jeu de Paume) and at the Littoriali dell'arte Fazzini, he receives an invitation to participate in the Venice Biennale, but unexpectedly the Pensionato Artistico decides not to renew his scholarship , thus putting him in front of serious economic difficulties. 1935- 1943 "Moments of solitude" The years between 1935 and 1938 are quite difficult. With the money from the prize won at the four-year anniversary, the sculptor rented the studio in via Margutta where he worked for the rest of his life. He isolates himself from the Roman artistic environment, creating some of his greatest masterpieces in solitude, such as the Portrait of Ungaretti and the Dancer and participating in public exhibitions with works of lesser commitment, sometimes linked to the themes of propaganda to the regime.

Auction archive: Lot number 171
Auction:
Datum:
12 Feb 2021
Auction house:
Bertolami Fine Arts
Piazza Lovatelli 1
00186 Rom
Italy
info@bertolamifinearts.com
+39 06 3260 9795
+39 06 3230 610
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