Ottone Rosai ^©  

(Firenze, 1895 - Ivrea, 1957)

Signature lower right. On the reverse: on the canvas, label and four notary stamps Eredità Rosai; in black crayon «.77.» [no. load of the Inheritance]; exhibition label Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, 1960, no. 213, there typed «Loggione / oil on canvas / cm. 100×70 / [Owner] coll. Oreste Rosai / [address of the same]"; label and two superimposed stamps Galleria Michaud, Florence, therein in ink «Ottone Rosai / Man in the gallery 1950 / Oil on canvas, 70/100 / N° 874/120 [n. of loading of the Tunnel]»; in felt-tip pen [all caps] «O. Rosai / Man in the gallery / 1950 / 874/120 [idem]»; «No. 874/120». On the stretcher, label showing Palazzo Graneri, Turin, 1983, there in ink «71»; label bearing the typewritten «Exhibited in the solo show / “Omaggio a Rosai” at the Gallery / La Strozzina in Florence April / May 1953, Cat. n°82»; further label bearing the typewritten «Exhibited in the exhibition / Ottone Rosai Works from 1911 to 1957 / Palazzo Strozzi, Florence November / December 1983 Cat. n° 79 pag. 136"; Gondrand label, Turin; photocopy of the work sheet in the monograph by P.C. Santini, Rosai, Vallecchi, Florence, 1960, typed therein «Pier Carlo Santini / Monograph “Rosai5” / Ediz. Vallecchi Florence 1960»; small label, therein «[in red ink] 174 / [in marker] 1950/6»; further label bearing in ink «12491» [highlighted in light blue], superimposed therein, in felt pen «2»; small rectangular label bearing '21999' in red ink; felt-tip pen «622/2»; label label Farsettiarte exhibition, Prato, September-October 1995 [later Palazzo Reale, Milan, October 1995-January 1996], therein in ink «169»; [all caps, bordered] «Rosai»; in pencil «1950»; [all caps] «Loggione»; Leoncini stamp, Florence.

Provenance: Oreste Rosai, Florence; Galleria Michaud, Florence.

Exhibitions: 1953, Homage to Rosai, introduction by C.L.Ragghianti, April-May 1953, La Strozzina, Florence, (reprinted in cat. no. 82); 1953, V National Prize for Painting in the Gulf of La Spezia, 19 July - 13 September (monographic exhibition of the work of Ottone Rosai), rooms IX and X, Provincial Tourist Board, La Spezia, (repr. in cat. p.43, No. 13); 1960, Mostra dell'Opera di Ottone Rosai, 1911-1957, curated by P.C. Santini, May-June, Palazzo Strozzi Florence (repr. in cat. p. 79, n. 213, 1940); 1968 - 1969, Selected works by Ottone Rosai, texts by F. Russoli, L. Cavallo, M. Valsecchi, 14 December - 16 January, Galleria Michaud, Florence, repr. in cat. no. 19; 1983, Ottone Rosai. Works from 1911 to 1957, edited by P.C. Santini, April - May, Palazzo Graneri, Turin, (reprinted in cat. p. 122, no. 71); 1983, Ottone Rosai. Works from 1911 to 1957, edited by P.C. Santini, 20 July - 18 September, National Gallery of Modern Art, Rome; then Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, November 13 - December 18, (reprinted in the cat. p. 136, no. 79); 1987, Ottone Rosai, 20 March - April, Galleria Michaud, Florence, (incat. repr. p. 8); 1990, Ottone Rosai. Paintings, drawings, writings by G. Nicoletti, 21 July - 28 August, Scuola «G. Pascoli» (then the summer exhibition venue of the Municipal Gallery of Modern Art of Forte dei Marmi), Vittoria Apuana, (reprinted in cat. no. 14); 1990, Ottone Rosai. The drawings of the «Bargello», written by G. Nicoletti, November, Galleria Pananti, Florence, (reprinted in cat. no. 14); 1995, Ottone Rosai, curated by L. Cavallo, 23 September - 22 October, Farsettiarte, Prato; then Palazzo Reale, Milan, 26 October - 6 January, (repr. in cat. p. 233, n. 169 (file pp.328-329); 2003, Ottone Rosai. From the Futurist season to the mature years, edited by S De Rosa, 10 April - 4 May; Palazzina Mangani, Fiesole, (repr. in cat. p.32); then National Museum of Naive Arts «Cesare Zavattini», Luzzara, 23 May - 4 July, (repr. in cat . p. 31); 2020, Ottone Rosai. Painting, territory of revolt, edited by L. Cavallo, 18 January - 10 March and 19 May - 23 August, Casa del Mantegna, Mantua, (repr. in cat. p. 137, n. 53).

Bibliography: 1957, Speech by C. L. Ragghianti of 16 May 1957 in Florence for the funeral honors of O. Rosai, «Saluto a Rosai», seleArte, 30, Vallecchi, Florence, May-June, p. 15, n. 25; 1960, P. C. Santini, Rosai, Vallecchi, Florence, p. 212, n. 319; 1968, M. Valsecchi, F. Russoli, L. Cavallo, Ottone Rosai, Edizioni Galleria Michaud, Florence, p. 46; 1973, L. Cavallo, Ottone Ro you know, Il Castello Gallery Editions, Milan, tav. CCXXIII, p. 255, no. 212; 2006, Roses. Fifty years later, writings by various, the Portolano, n. 47/48, July - December, Polistampa, Florence, p. 32; 2018, G. Faccenda, Reasoned General Catalog of the Works of Ottone Rosai, first volume, Editoriale Giorgio Mondadori, Milan, p.481, n. 306.