$1,500
Alfredo Volpi (Italy/Brazil, 1896 - 1988) tempera on paper depicting four different building facades in bright colors. Signed lower right "A Volpi", & verso lower right "A.Volpi '70", unframed, & measuring 21-1/2" in height with width of 17-1/2". Comes complete with certificate of authenticity (see photographs). In overall good condition with toning to back of paper due probably to previous acidic backing & pinholes to corners from previous mount. Provenance: from a prominent Texas collector.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 (even though the artist himself never acknowledged being part of the concretist movement as such). The 1960s witnessed the development of his trademark "bandeirinhas" (small flags) for which Volpi became famous and which originated from
Auctioneer:
Bremoauctions
Date:
2016-10-22
