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Ottone Rosai © (Firenze, 1895 - Ivrea, 1957)
Boy's head
Oil on plywood
cm. 38,7x33,5
Signed lower right. On the back: sketch depicting a female bust; label and stamp showing Cortina d'Ampezzo, 1941; label Collezione di Nino Carozzi, Lerici. Provenance: N. Carozzi collection, Lerici; private collection, Prato; private collection, Milan. Location: private collection, Turin.
Exhibitions: 1941, 1st Exhibition of Contemporary Art Collections, Azienda Autonoma di Soggiorno e Turismo, Cortina d'Ampezzo, 10-31 August, (reprinted in cat. no. 497 as Head of a Young Man); 2004, From Picasso to Botero. Masterpieces of Twentieth-Century Art, edited by V. Sgarbi and
G. Faccenda, 27 March - 6 June, Civic Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Arezzo ; 29 June - 29 August, curated by V. Sgarbi and G. Bonini, Palazzo Albertini, Forlì , (reprinted in cat. p. 281 as Head of a Young Man).
Bibliography: 2018 G. Faccenda, General Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of Ottone Rosai, vol. 1 , Editoriale Giorgio Mondadori, Milan, p. 375, n. 104.
This could be the painting cited in the list of works at no. 3 (Head of a Boy) in the catalogue of the exhibition at the Galleria delle Tre Arti, Milan, from 2 to 16 December 1933.