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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
May 25, 2013 | Galleria Pananti Casa d'Aste | Florence | Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Grafica ed Edizioni | 174 | $****** - ****** | Woman with book |
paintings
50 x 46.6 cm (19.69 x 18.35 in)
Oil painting on canvas
Signature bottom right, on the book: BALLAPorigin: Antonio Tiscione, Savona [news from photograph, Gigli Archive 1991]
Giacomo Balla
(Turin, 1871 - Rome, 1958)
Woman with book, 1902-1903
Oil painting on canvas
cm. 50x46.6
Signature bottom right, on the book: BALLAPorigin: Antonio Tiscione, Savona [news from photograph, Gigli Archive 1991]. Private collection. Authentication by M. Fagiolo dell"Arco, Fregene May 1993. Authentication by Elena Gigli, n° 2013/546 of 02/25/2013: "?I am an artist. For a long time the idea of a painting, a figure of a woman with indefinite contours. From then on I had only one thought: to fix your smile on canvas", wrote Giacomo Balla at the beginning of the twentieth century. Since he arrived in Rome in 1895 from his native Turin, the pictorial genre he prefers is the portrait: it becomes the launching pad for his new career as a painter of moods. Having overcome the academic setting of the nineteenth-century portrait, we find elegant ladies on the balcony (Smile in the light, 1901), intellectuals leafing through the newspaper or busy at the desk (in Mr. Pisani), children licking ice cream or playing sitting on the high chair, the artist friends while chiseling a medal or sculpting (Duilio Cambellotti or the sculptor Glicenstein), the politicians sitting in their dignified environment (the mayor Nathan)" There were so many portraits created by Balla during the first ten years of the twentieth century that they we find exhibited at the Amatori e Cultori (11 portraits in 1902 up to 1914 where he presented 10 out of 29 works). Precisely in 1902, reviewing the Exhibition, Grita commented: "Balla, who from the deepest darkness has leapt to a taken to the luminous glories of a sensational triumph, he asserts himself lively with a series of portraits. In this portrait "where the face has not yet been identified" Balla focuses his attention on the light that comes from the left and reflects on the open book thus illuminating the left side of the face. This portrait was studied by me during the work on my degree thesis (Rome 1991) and subsequently studied by Maurizio Fagiolo dell"Arco (Fregene 1993). "This new portrait is very quick, perhaps executed (as Balla used to do) in a single sitting. A hand is just sketched (and seems to hint at movement), the book just indicated: only the face disfigured by the light seems interest the painter who is very successful as a portraitist. [?] The brushwork is very lively and sketchy, the hairstyle recalls the period and also recalls the portraits of his wife Elisa "outline, that is, of that dynamic factor that will lead Balla to enthusiastically adhere to the Futurism of his students Boccioni and Severini" Dr. Elena Gigli
