$1,000
Alfredo Volpi (Italy/Brazil, 1896 - 1988) mixed media entitled "Fachada Das Casas", depicting nine (9) different windows/facades (one of his more familiar & famous themes) in bright colors with a deep & vibrant blue background, executed in 1970. Framed in a white frame with plexiglass front & measuring 25-1/4" in height with width of 19-5/8", & having a sight image height of 23-1/2" with width of 17-5/8". Signed verso "A. Volpi 70". Comes complete with Certificate of Authenticity & letter of provenance (see photographs). In overall good condition, all measurements are approximate. Further Provenance: comes from the estate of a prominent Texas collector, who purchased it directly from the artist, a personal family friend. Alfredo Volpi was born in Lucca, Italy on April 14, 1896 but less than two years later migrated to Brazil where he became a Brazilian citizen & lived for the majority of his life. He was one of the most important artists of the so-called Grupo Santa Helena, formed in the 1930s with Francisco Rebolo, Clovis Graciano, Mario Zanini, Rossir Osir e Bonadei, Fulvio Pennachi, & others. He was a prominent painter of the artistic & cultural Brazilian Modernist Movement, even though he was self-taught. Volpi started painting façades of houses in a highly stylized and colorful manner (these paintings were later named the "historical façades" by art critics) and this recurrent theme became pervasive all through the 1950s, after a brief "concretist" period (ev
Auctioneer:
Bremoauctions
Date:
2016-11-19
