$500
Alfredo Volpi (Italy/Brazil, 1896 - 1988) "Fachada Das Casas" (1970) unframed tempera on paper depicting four windows on multi-colored background. Unframed, & measuring 20" in height with width of 16". Artist signature in verso. Comes complete with certificate of authenticity (see photographs). In overall good condition. Provenance: from a prominent Texas collector, who was also friends of the artist.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 Brazilian folklore (small flags are a regular fixture of the popular festa junina, held every y
Auctioneer:
Bremoauctions
Date:
2016-12-17
