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L. T. S. addressed to Contessa A. L. Pecci-Blunt. Rome, April 7, 1945. 2 pp. Front and back, with free-handwritten corrections, some red-typed words and blue ink "Sender" stamp. Perfect condition.
Maria Vittoria Rossi, the Great Lady of the Twentieth Century, became famous under the pseudonym attributed by Leo Longanesi of Iren Brin, but not only. Idro Montanelli, his friend, wrote that she had a "chameleonism that seems to be borderless."
She was a prolific writer, "Harper's Bazaar" correspondent to Italy, author of the famous correspondence book in "Settimana Incom (Incom Week)" with the pseudonym "Contessa Clara", a gallerist among the most important of the twentieth century in Rome, founder of "La Margherita" and then of the famous "L’obelisco” on the Sistina road, 146.
As the Countess Pecci Blunt, she was a patron. She was an icon of style and elegance, queen of what then would had been called "café-society", halfway between culture and worldliness.
And she was also the wife/friend of Gaspero Del Corso, with whom she had an indissoluble relationship.
Since just over a year, Rome had been proclaimed "open city", "Savinio had stopped bringing Basque (…), Cecchi had illustrated Wild and portrayed many Americans (...), Tamburi had just returned from Capri where he was a guest of Malaparte, and De Chirico lived in Via Gregoriana and grew his mustache, Mafai had a major role in the Communist faction and Capogrossi had made a series of "Women".
In this changing mood, among the exciting misadventure of the Brin-Corso's spouses (reduced to the penniless and he declared deserter), became evident the idea of gathering all those "deviant" artists and somehow continuing what Pecci Blunt had begun with La Cometa. It was a great success.
Thus, was born the Obelisk gallery in 1946 with the first exhibition on Morandi and the last in 1978 with Tina Modotti.
Among the hundreds of proposals, often there were some worldly and commercial proposals, but also some that became historical. All the avant-garde of the fifties and sixties would be walking by hence, as well as all the classics of the post-war era: Afro, Capogrossi, Fountain, Burri, Pomodoro next to Sironi, Morandi, De Chirico, Balla, Campigli.
And for the first time in Italy the great foreigners: Matta, Magritte, Kandinsky, Moore, Calder, Dalí, Bacon, Rauschenberg.
- Creator:Brin Irene
- Creation Year:1940s
- Dimensions:Height: 10.63 in (27 cm)Width: 8.86 in (22.5 cm)Depth: 0.08 in (2 mm)
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- Gallery Location:Roma, IT
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