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Giovanni ColacicchiSigned Giovanni Colacicchi Nude Drawing Psyche 1939 charcoal paper 1939
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The drawing, signed at the right bottom corner Colacicchi, is a study for the painting Psyche, exhibited for the first time in 1939 at the Ussi Prize-planned by the Florence Academy of Drawings-and, one year later, at the monographic exhibition held at Lyceum in Florence. The work was made after his experience in Rome next when he came back to Florence, probably in the Studio he owned in Via Martelli. Differently from the Zaleucus lawgiver of Epizephyrian Locri, belonging to the same year, the Psyche is a gloomy beauty veiled by melancholia, aware of the unstoppable passing of the time, a clear allusion to a world collapsing around him, a world that, indeed, was shaken by the Nazi-fascism and by the enacted Italian racial laws
The drawing and the painting are united by the pose of the lady, portrayed while she’s folding on herself, with the head laying down, but the varies slightly in the position of the crossed legs and in the foot that is visible. The two pieces are quite different: while in the painting Psyche with a light gesture of dejection […] held herself to a cutted log, covered by a white cloth reminding somehow of a shroud, and the same mournful inflection was reflected also by the upside down whiter laurel branch, in the drawing isn’t properly developed this melancholy aura, yet, and the artist portrayed her while she’s reading a book, like she wanted to fin in the pages the solution or a moment of rest to the reality.
- Creator:Giovanni Colacicchi (1900 - 1992)
- Creation Year:1939
- Dimensions:Height: 23.63 in (60 cm)Width: 21.66 in (55 cm)
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- Gallery Location:Florence, IT
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU1240210291202
Giovanni Colacicchi
The origins of Giovanni Colacicchi are tied to a rather important family: his grandmother Germana was a descendant of Caetani della Torre (in fact the artist signed his first works with the double surname Colacicchi Caetani) while his grandfather was the painter Scipione Vannuttelli. The radically catholic environment in which he grew up and the classical studies undertaken in his youth were fundamental, permitting him, in fact, a profound knowledge of religious texts and developing in him a strong interest in literature which accompanied him throughout his entire career.
Of Latium origins, he approached painting after his move to Florence in 1916 entering into contact with Garibaldo Cepparelli, Raffaello De Grada and frequenting the Caffe Giubbe Rosse, meeting place for the intellectual elite, where he met the man he would deem his real master, Francesco Franchetti. Many were his suggestions regarding painting, which ranged from Renaissance artists to Futurists, from Cézanne to Hans von Marées.
Colacicchi was endowed with a multifaceted personality and was always in search of new stimuli, engaging himself in various cultural and social activities. He took part, in fact, in many exhibitions in Italy and abroad, taught at the Academy of Fine Arts and many times fought in defense of the art and of its respect. He maintained friendships with prominent personalities in the art world and critics including Giorgio De Chirico, Libero Andreotti, Renato Guttuso, Carlo Del Bravo and Bernard Berenson, but also of literature like Giuseppe Ungaretti and Eugenio Montale. This inclination of his towards writing, manifested already in adolescence with his choice of a classical high school, accompanied the entire lifetime of Colacicchi, he dedicated himself also to poetic activity and founded in 1924 “La Rivista di Firenze” and in 1926 “Solaria”.
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