Villa a Roma - SOLD

Villa a Roma is an original artwork realized by Arturo Noci in the beginning of the XX century.

Original oil painting on canvas.

Hand-signed on the lower right corner. Black wooden frame included.

Excellent conditions.

Precious artwork representing a view on a Roman Villa. The work is very interesting and refined and is characterized by a pure Divisionist style. Noci has been one of the greatest artists in Italy between the end of the XIX and the beginning of the XX centuries. His name began circulating in the most aristocratic circles from the first decade of the XX century. However, he started as Symbolist during the end of the XIX century, but he approached the bourgeois portrait that brought him great fame before he left for New York, where he became the portraitist of the bourgeois class. The artwork Villa a Roma is a precious and important example of Divisionist Italian painting and is characterized by the classical dissolution of the contours. All over the surface of this work, a golden aura gives to this work a great preciousness and elegance between reality and dream. The charm of Italian Divisionism is to be found instead in the aura of magic that permeates the works of this period, and this painting is a real piece of painting of the Italian history and art.

Arturo Noci (Rome, 1874 - 1953) was into a family of artists: his mother was a painter specialized in copies of ancient paintings, while his father had a studio of decorative arts and furnishings. Arturo showed early talent as a child, so he was enrolled at the Institute of Fine Arts in Rome, under the direction of the painter Filippo Prosperi. In 1897, Noci began participating in exhibitions of international importance such as the Venice Biennial, where he met leading European painters. In this first phase, the artist was heavily influenced by masters like Antonio Mancini, Domenico Morelli and Giulio Aristide Sartorio, with whom he worked on an important frieze (Venice Biennial of 1903). His initial interest in landscape, characterized by a symbolist sensibility, culminated in 1904 with his joining the group of “XXV Campagna Romana”. Parallel to this, the artist began focussing on studies of the figure, especially the female figure, where he made his first important and successful sales.