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Pretexts for painting
The Still Life
 Giorgio Morandi Still Life (1958). Oil on canvas, 25.5x30 cm |
It definitely carries forward the theme of this pretext for painting: a depiction of objects, fruit, game etc, which allows the artist the chance to imbue lifeless objects, immobile in their splendour with his own feeling, with his very own poetry.
The show opening in our space in Florence spans the whole 20th century, but gives special attention to artists who worked in the first half of that century, from Morandi to de Pisis, from Carrà to Soffici, from Casorati to de Chirico. The paintings on display are of extremely high quality and have been chosen and presented in the catalogue by Luigi Cavallo.
 Felice Casorati Sketch for Still Life with Grapes (1931). Oil on canvas, 34x46 cm |
Artists featured: Ugo Bernasconi, Domenico Cantatore. Felice Carena, Arturo Carmassi, Carlo Carrà, Felice Casorati, Giuseppe Cesetti, Giorgio De Chirico, Filippo de Pisis, Francesco De Rocchi, Franco Francese, Achille Funi, Franco Gentilini, Carlo Mattioli, Giorgio Morandi, Ennio Morlotti, Mario Nuti, Pippo Oriani, Fausto Pirandello, Bruno Rosai, Ottone Rosai, Aldo Salvadori, Pio Semeghini, Ardengo Sofffici, Arturo Tosi, Gianni Vagnetti.
Press office: Susanna Fabiani:
catalogue and photographs available on
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susy@galleriailponte.com
Catalogue: 30x21 cm, 96 pages, 32 colour reproductions. Texts by Luigi
Cavallo and Andrea Alibrandi
Edizioni Il Ponte, Florence. Price: €18
Pieces displayed
Ugo Bernasconi
Still Life (late 1920s). Oil on card. 41.5x45.5 cm.
Domenico Cantatore
Still Life. 1957. Oil on canvas. cm 50.5x80.5.
Composition of objects. 1963. Oil on masonite. 44x63.5 cm.
Felice Carena
Fish (1935). Oil on card. cm 34.4x45.
Still Life with seagulls (1946). Oil on panel. 40.8x62.4 cm.
Arturo Carmassi
Still Life with fan (1945). Tempera on paper. 59.5x70 cm.
Carlo Carrà
Soda syphon. 1956. Oil on canvas. 50x40 cm.
Felice Casorati
Sketch for Still Life with grapes (1931). Oil on canvas. 34x46 cm.
Giuseppe Cesetti
Vase with flowers (1971). Oil on canvas. 70x50 cm.
Giorgio de Chirico
Silent life with grapes (1960). Oil on canvas. 40x50 cm.
Filippo de Pisis
Still Life on the beach (mid-Thirties). Oil on card. 21x26 cm.
Still Life (Early Forties) Oil on card. 20.6x40.5 cm.
Interior with parrot. 1939. Oil on canvassed paper. 60x48 cm.
Francesco De Rocchi
Still Life with Prawns (Thirties). Oil on panel. 32x42 cm.
Franco Francese
Still Life. 1948. Oil on canvas. 65.4x53.8 cm.
Musical instrument. 1949. Oil on canvas. 52.9x72.3 cm.
Achille Funi
Flowers (late Fifties). Tempera and fine oil on paper, applied to masonite.
60x44.5 cm.
Franco Gentilini
Still Life with objects (1953). Oil and sand on canvas. 55x38 cm.
Carlo Mattioli
Still Life. 1962. Oil on canvas. 47x64 cm.
Giorgio Morandi
Still Life (1958). Oil on canvas. 25.5x30 cm.
Ennio Morlotti
Still Life (1942). Tempera on canvassed paper. 17.5x30.2 cm.
Mario Nuti
Still Life. 1947. Mixed technique on canvassed paper. 65x44 cm.
Pippo Oriani
Still Life (Sixties). Encaustic graffito on chalked card. 32.5x50 cm.
Large Still Life (Sixties). Encaustic graffito on chalked card.
50x65 cm.
Fausto Pirandello
Still Life with cup and bicycle saddle. (1948). Oil on card.
70.5x51.5 cm.
Bruno Rosai
Glass. 1947-54. Oil on canvas. 46.5x58.5 cm.
Ottone Rosai
Still Life. 1919.
Oil on canvas. 32x40 cm.
Aldo Salvadori
Still Life. 1983. Oil on canvas. 45x60 cm.
Pio Semeghini
Still Life with Flowers (Thirties). Oil on panel. 34.5x50 cm.
Ardengo Soffici
Small trophy (1960). Tempera on parchment. The work: 42x30 cm.
The parchment: 53x44 cm.
Arturo Tosi
Still Life (1940). Oil on panel. 40x50 cm.
Gianni Vagnetti
Still Life (1948). Oil on canvas 40.5x50 cm.