Giuseppe Ajmone (1923-2005) - I Pesci, 1949

Key features of the work:
Giuseppe Ajmone (1923–2005) • “I Pesci”, 1949 • Oil on canvas • 40×50 cm (with frame 55×65) • Signature and date bottom right • Signature and date on the back • Artist’s authenticity on photograph (Milan, 1972) • Provenance private collection Milan
Work belonging to the Figurative Realism movement of 20th-century Italian art.

1949 is a pivotal year for Giuseppe Ajmone, in which his painting language becomes defined within the postwar Italian Realism. It marks a moment of widespread reaction against abstraction and formalism, alongside Cassinari, Migneco, Treccani, Morlotti, Peverelli and other protagonists of the Italian figurative renewal.

This historic painting stands at the moment when such a language finds a clear, recognizable, still free, experimental, authentic definition. For this reason it is rarer, more interesting, and more surprising than the later production, which is more well known but also more codified. Here the quality of the pictorial research emerges with evident clarity. It is an extraordinary work, perfect for those seeking historical value and expressive power in a single solution.

Ajmone creates this canvas with a painting technique that expresses immediacy and intense visual strength.
The fish, built with energetic brushwork and solid color, emerge on a vibrant red plane, in a tense and very modern balance. The material is alive, the mark is decisive. The color is rich and structural: it constructs space with great efficacy.

The painting quality, together with the significative dating and its perfect placement, confer a museal value to the work, because it extraordinarily highlights the distinctive traits of postwar Realism, clearly visible in the centrality of the subject, the material force of the color, and the use of energetic brushstrokes and compact color.

The authenticity is the artist’s autograph on the photograph (Milan, 1972), with his own signature. There is an inscription probably referring to previous ownership.

Giuseppe Ajmone, born in Carpignano Sesia and active between Milan and Novara, is among the protagonists of the Italian figurative renewal after the Second World War. He has exhibited since the 1950s in institutional and museum contexts. Works from the late 1940s are rare, precious, and of great collecting interest, for their quality and for the historical context in which they are placed.

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