Alfredo Pieracci (1877-1970) - Marina

Alfredo Pieracci — Marina with Rocks (Livorno)
Oil on faesite board, 25 × 35 cm
Signed lower right

Refined seascape by Alfredo Pieracci — a Florentine painter born in 1877 and died in 1970 — executed in oil on faesite board. The work depicts a stretch of rocky coast beaten by the sea, rendered with free, tactile brushwork and luminosity.
The composition is built through broad color masses: the bluish grays of the rocks, the deep green of the sea, the white foam of the waves, and the sky moved by light clouds. The result is an immediate, atmospheric painting with great freshness of execution.
The evident link with the Tuscan Macchiaioli and post-Macchiaioli tradition is clear: not a minute description of the landscape, but a synthesis of light, color, and “stain,” where form arises from the contrast between light and dark tones. The seascape evokes that Tuscan painting line, from Fattori and the Macchiaioli to Florentine and Livornese painting of the twentieth century, attentive to direct observation and the luminous vibration of the landscape.

The original frame is to be considered a gift from the seller.

Work in excellent overall condition, with normal signs of aging compatible with its age.

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Alfredo Pieracci, born in Florence in 1877, studied painting at the Accademia di Belle Arti in the Tuscan capital and regularly attended the group of artists known as the “Macchiaioli.” He devoted himself to landscapes, seascapes, still lifes, and portraits, maintaining a language tied to Florentine painting tradition and to post-Macchiaioli sensibility. His work is distinguished by sober, swift, luminous painting, capable of combining visual immediacy with solid tonal construction.
Although he did not neglect any genre, old or modern, he was a distinguished and effective landscapist and had a special skill in reproducing flowers, among which he preferred thistle flowers.
He exhibited several times in various shows in Florence and elsewhere in Italy, and the works on display were always well received by the public and by critics.
A few years after his death, which occurred in Florence in 1970 at over 90 years of age, his native city dedicated to him a retrospective exhibition to honor his long and successful career.