Happy New Year Card

Happy New Year Card Signed  by Aldo Palazzeschi  (Florence 1885, Rome – 1974),  to Tanino Chiurazzi.

 Venice, December 12ve  1958 .    In Italian. Excellent condition.

From Venice, and its pictoresques places, Aldo Palazzeschi, the Italian poet of "let me have fun" , with futurist beginnings, sent this greeting postcard to the Italian gallerist of the " Chiurazzi Showcase " (Via del Babuino 97, Rome), Gaetano Chiurazzi (Naples, 1899-1967). An autograph messahe of Merry Christmas and Happy New Year (1959). 

Gaetano Chiurazzi (Naples, 1899-1967)

Better known as Tanino, in 1925 he was sent to Rome by his father to manage the family foundry, as well as to take care of the exhibition hall in via del Babuino. His interest shifted from bronzes to painting. The result was a change in the character of the art gallery, which began to exhibit towards the end of the 1930s, alongside the classical bronzes, paintings by painters of the Roman school, until after the Second World War it became a painting gallery and thus becoming one of the best known in Rome as the "Chiurazzi Showcase". Chiurazzi here welcomed numerous exhibitions by contemporary artists, such as Maccari, De Pisis, Mafai, Raphael, D. Cooper, Levi, Cagli, Morandi, Carrà, Soffici, De Chirico, Sironi, Rosai. A great connoisseur of art, especially lover of figurative art, around the 1950s he also opened his gallery to abstract works of art by G. Dorazio, A. Perilli, G. Turcato, C. Accardi, T. Scialoia . It also welcomed works by foreign painters including S. Dalì, J. Ensor, M. Ernst, C. Pernieke, E. L. Kircimer. His activity, his knowledge in the artistic field, his personality together with his character led C. to befriend contemporary painters, especially with De Pisis, but also with exponents of the literary world including in particular G. Comisso , G. Ungaretti, A. Palazzeschi, L. De Libero.