Gaetano Ricchizzi (1879-1950) - Ritratto di donna

Gaetano Ricchizzi (Naples 1879-1950), Portrait of a woman, oil on canvas 39 x 29 cm work signed Ricchizzi top right.


The work, of excellent artistic and chromatic quality, is in perfect condition. The painting dates back to 1920-1930. In good condition and of fine workmanship.
Work from an important private collection certified by the stamp on the back of the painting.
Original works of legitimate provenance.
A certificate of legal authentication issued by an art expert is issued.

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Rebellious, nonconformist, polemical with both colleagues and clients, for this reason he was sometimes excluded from official occasions of Neapolitan artistic life. Gaetano Ricchizzi studied at the Institute of Fine Arts in Naples with Achille D’Orsi and Michele Cammarano but mainly with Tommaso Celentano. In 1904 he founded the fortnightly “Le Arti-Corriere degli Artisti” and collaborated with the polemical “Pro-Arte”, and he is responsible for the organisation of the 1st National Art Exhibition of Naples (1916) where he exhibited the oil Portrait of the Russian Sculptor. The work The Tricolour, exhibited at the National Exhibition of Naples in 1915, was purchased by the National Gallery of Modern Art in Rome and earned him the esteem of Boccioni, who also dedicated his Futurist Manifesto to Southern Painters (1916) to Ricchizzi. The genre in which he expressed himself best was the portrait, including those of Giuseppe Casciaro, Saverio Gatto, Riccardo Forster, and M. Giaquinto (1923). His self-portraits are also numerous and equally intense.