Ferruccio Rontini (1893-1964) - L’abbeverata

Ferruccio Rontini (Vicchio, 1893 – Livorno, 1964)
Title: The Watering
Oil on panel, 26.5 x 42.5 cm
With frame 47 x 63 cm
Signed at the lower right
Work from my collection
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Striking Impressionist painting by Rontini. In front of a small waterfall, a peasant woman and her modest flock stop to refresh themselves, in a quiet moment of harmony with nature.

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He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence, becoming a teacher as well. His initial macchiaiolo style would undergo an evolution only starting from the forties.
His painting is imbued with naturalism and seeks mainly landscapes or scenes of daily life. The countryside is the frequent setting for his works, en plein air in Maremma or in the Mugello. The markets of Vicchio are very picturesque and sought-after, where Rontini shows an eighteenth-century (note: this is incorrect in Italian; it should be nineteenth-century) view of a reality rudely projected onto daily living. There is no doubt that some of his best works originate precisely in this environment and unfold in a span from the twenties to the thirties, when the artist indicated the year of composition with Roman numerals, as happens somewhat for many Labronic painters of his era. Among his pupils we recall the Vicchio-born painters Rutilio Muti, Armeno Mattioli and Foresto Marianini.
He was among the founders, in 1920, of the Gruppo Labronico.
Among the exhibitions in which he participated are to be remembered, among others, the 1922 exhibition “Fiorentina Primaverile” where he exhibited 3 works, the Milan Biennale of 1925 with the work La coltratura, in addition to the exhibitions of the Gruppo Labronico. In October 2018 a show in his honor was inaugurated by the Fondazione Livorno.
A street in Livorno has been dedicated to the author.