Luigi Servolini (1906-1981) - Veduta portuale





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Oil on panel painting by Luigi Servolini (1906–1981), Veduta portuale, a maritime landscape from 1929, signed and in the original edition, in good condition and sold with its period frame, Italy.
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Rare oil painting on board by the famous Livorno artist Luigi Servolini, dated 1929 and signed at the bottom right. The painting represents a precious testimony of the artist’s early pictorial production, which critics define as an unprecedented vocation characterized by a luminous synthesis and a chromatic vehemence that clearly distinguished it from the paternal brushwork. This body of work is today extremely rare, since almost all Futurist-leaning paintings by Servolini were lost during the aerial bombardments that hit his Livorno studio during World War II. As early as 1920, at only fourteen years old, Servolini drew the attention of critics, winning the first prize at the first National Exhibition of Child Art in Pistoia and going on to exhibit as a very young artist at the Brera Biennial in Milan and at the prestigious ninety-ninth International Exhibition of the Society of Amateurs and Connoisseurs of Rome. His precocious talent caused strong discontent in the local art circles, to the point that the great Plinio Nomellini, fearing being surpassed by the young indomitable talent, actively sought to hinder his career by enforcing a harsh ostracism within the Labronica Group. Despite these resistances, Servolini’s work received praise from the avant-garde, as he was an enthusiastic admirer of Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, from whom he received esteem and autograph dedications, and a close friend of the Futurist architect Virgilio Marchi. The work offered here thus represents a fundamental point of convergence between the glorious Tuscan tradition of Giovanni Fattori and the new synthetic, international currents of the twentieth century. The painting is in excellent condition and is accompanied by an important period, worked frame that enhances its contemporary compositional modernity.”} )} Wait the ending contains extraneous parentheses. Remove. Let's fix. Actually final should be JSON with one key. Ensure no stray chars. I'll output corrected. Also some phrasing adjust. Let's output.} }? No. I'll present clean. Use final.}{
Rare oil painting on board by the famous Livorno artist Luigi Servolini, dated 1929 and signed at the bottom right. The painting represents a precious testimony of the artist’s early pictorial production, which critics define as an unprecedented vocation characterized by a luminous synthesis and a chromatic vehemence that clearly distinguished it from the paternal brushwork. This body of work is today extremely rare, since almost all Futurist-leaning paintings by Servolini were lost during the aerial bombardments that hit his Livorno studio during World War II. As early as 1920, at only fourteen years old, Servolini drew the attention of critics, winning the first prize at the first National Exhibition of Child Art in Pistoia and going on to exhibit as a very young artist at the Brera Biennial in Milan and at the prestigious ninety-ninth International Exhibition of the Society of Amateurs and Connoisseurs of Rome. His precocious talent caused strong discontent in the local art circles, to the point that the great Plinio Nomellini, fearing being surpassed by the young indomitable talent, actively sought to hinder his career by enforcing a harsh ostracism within the Labronica Group. Despite these resistances, Servolini’s work received praise from the avant-garde, as he was an enthusiastic admirer of Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, from whom he received esteem and autograph dedications, and a close friend of the Futurist architect Virgilio Marchi. The work offered here thus represents a fundamental point of convergence between the glorious Tuscan tradition of Giovanni Fattori and the new synthetic, international currents of the twentieth century. The painting is in excellent condition and is accompanied by an important period, worked frame that enhances its contemporary compositional modernity.”} )} Wait the ending contains extraneous parentheses. Remove. Let's fix. Actually final should be JSON with one key. Ensure no stray chars. I'll output corrected. Also some phrasing adjust. Let's output.} }? No. I'll present clean. Use final.}{

