Pompeo Borra
Woman In Turquoise - Original Lithograph by P. Borra - 1975
1975

Name: Woman In Turquoise - Original Lithograph by P. Borra - 1975
Brand: Pompeo Borra
Price: 192.21 USD
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About the Item

Woman In Turquoise is a beautiful colored lithograph realized by the Italian artist Pompeo Borra (Milan, 1898-1973). Edited by La Nuova Foglio, Macerata. Authencity label by La Nuova Foglio, on the back of the artwork. Hand-signed in pencil "P. Borra" on the lower left margin. Numbered on lower right. Edition 20/100. This very nice contemporary print represents a profile of a woman with black hair and a dark make up on her eyes. The background is a beautiful turquoise spiral. Original print in excellent conditions, including a white cardboard passepartout, 70 x 50 cm. Pompeo Borra (Milan, 1898 - 1973) He began his artistic career attending the Brera Academy of Fine Arts. In 1916 he took part, as a volunteer, in the First World War. At the end of the conflict he returned to his vocation for painting. In 1924 he took part in the XIV International Art Exhibition of the city of Venice. In the same years he met the group of founding artists of the Novecento movement and began to take part in the exhibitions. His paintings arouse the interest of Franz Roh, the famous theorist of magical Realism and of New German objectivity, who invited him to the Italian art exhibition at the Kunstverein in Leipzig in 1928. His painting of severe purism, placed between Magical Realism and Metaphysical Painting, proposes square images and compact volumes that evoke fourteenth-century painting, blocked and silent situations inhabited by everyday objects and dreamy and immobile characters, mostly female. In this decade he collaborated with the Galleria del Milione, often going to Paris where he became friends with Léonce Rosenberg, director of the gallery L'effort moderne. His chromatic choices evolve towards transparent and brighter shades, even crossing an abstract season. In the years 1949-1950, he took part in the establishment of the important Verzocchi collection, on the subject of work, sending, with a self-portrait, Compagni di lavoro; the Collection is today kept in the Pinacoteca Civica of Forlì. In the fifties / sixties painting Pompeo Borra abandons the solid and monumental volumes of the previous works, creating works in which he anticipates themes that have come back to life after his death and had a greater critical response in the 1980s with the term "postmodern". The two-dimensionality, the intense color scheme and the extreme synthesis of the figures, always immersed in an atmosphere of metaphysical suspension, will be the connotative stylistic features of his later works. His works are preserved in important museums, institutions and private collections, including: Center Pompidou, Paris; GAM, Milan; Civic Museum of Art, Modena; MART, Rovereto; Brera Academy of Fine Arts, Milan; Civic art collections, Museo del Novecento, Milan; "Mario Rimoldi" Museum of Modern Art Cortina d'Ampezzo. This artwork is shipped from Italy. Under existing legislation, any artwork in Italy created over 70 years ago by an artist who has died requires a licence for export regardless of the work’s market price. The shipping may require additional handling days to require the licence according to the final destination of the artwork.

Creator:

Pompeo Borra (1898 - 1973)

Creation Year:

1975

Dimensions:

Height: 13.15 in (33.4 cm)Width: 9.45 in (24 cm)Depth: 0.04 in (1 mm)

Medium:

Lithograph

Movement & Style:

Contemporary

Period:

1970-1979