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Ottone Rosai © (Firenze, 1895 - Ivrea, 1957)
Meeting in Gardone, 1933
Oil on cardboard applied to panel
cm. 71.5x100
Signed and dated lower left. On the back: notarial label with four Eredità Rosai stamps; exhibition label 1992, Come un paese in una pupilla, November 7 - 29, Accademia degli Euteleti, San Miniato al Tedesco; two stamps Accademia degli Euteleti, San Miniato al Tedesco; on the frame: exhibition label on the occasion of the centenary of his birth 1995, Ottone Rosai, 200 works from 1913 to 1957, September 23 - October 22, Farsettiarte, Prato, (reprint in cat. no. 69).
Provenance: Eredi Rosai, Florence; Private collection, Florence.
Exhibitions: 1933, Ottone Rosai, preface by Alberto Savinio, December 2-16, 1933, Galleria delle Tre Arti, Milan, (reprinted in cat. no. 8); 1985, Ottone Rosai 1895-1957, text by AB Del Guercio, November-December, Galleria Forlai, Florence (reprinted in cat. no. 8, illustrated);
1989, The Tuscan Twentieth Century, Works from 1923 to 1933, edited by Corrado Marsan, December 15 - 31, Hall of the Autonomous Tourist Board, Fiesole (reprinted in cat. p. 43, illustrated); 1990, Ottone Rosai. Paintings and Drawings, text by Tommaso Paloscia, November 6 - 24, Galleria Dantesca, Turin (reprinted in cat. no. 9, illustrated); 1990, The Twentieth Century in Tuscany 1924 - 1934, edited by Corrado Marsan, March 3 - 30, Biblioteca Civica MA Martini, Scandicci (reprinted in cat. p. 66, illustrated); 1992, Like a Country in a Pupil. Landscape and Figure in Art in Florence between the Two Wars, edited by Marco Fagioli, November 7 - 28, Sala Grande, Conservatory of Santa Chiara, San Miniato, (reprinted in cat. pp. 66, 67, no. 11, illustrated in color); 1995, Ottone Rosai, 200 Works from 1913 to 1957, edited by Luigi Cavallo, September 23 - October 22, Farsettiarte, Prato; then October 26, 1995 - January 6, 1996, Palazzo Reale, Milan (reprinted in cat. pp. 133, 300, no. 69, illustrated in color); 2002, Continuità. Art in Tuscany 1990-2000 and Collecting Contemporary Art in Tuscany, edited by Jean-Christophe Amman, February 24 - June 9, Luigi Pecci Center for Contemporary Art, Prato (cat. ref. p. 116, no. 51, illustrated); 2003, Ottone Rosai. From the Futurist Season to His Mature Years, edited by Stefano De Rosa, April 10 - May 4, Palazzina Mangani, Fiesole (cat. ref. pnn, illustrated); 2004, Ottone Rosai. From the Futurist Season to His Mature Years, edited by Stefano De Rosa, May 23 - July 4, Cesare Zavattini National Museum of Naive Arts, Luzzara (cat. ref. p. 25, illustrated); 2008, Ottone Rosai. Drawings, watercolours, paintings, edited by Luigi Cavallo, 13 March - 13 April, Fògola Galleria Dantesca, Turin (reprinted in cat. p. 61, no. 1, illustrated).
Bibliography: 1968 , Homage to Ottone Rosai, text by Alessandro Parronchi, Galleria Dolomiti, Cortina d'Ampezzo, pnn; 1981, Bolaffi, Catalogue of Modern Italian Art no. 17, Giorgio Mondadori e associati, Turin, p. 390; 2018, Giovanni Faccenda, General Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of Ottone Rosai. First Volume, Editoriale Giorgio Mondadori, Milan, p. 371, no.