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20th Century Mountain View Painting Tempera on Cardboard by Piero Leidi
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Piero Leidi (Brescia, 1892 - Bedizzole, 1976)
Mountain view with Ponte di Legno
Tempera on cardboard, 23 x 17 cm
Signed lower right "P.Leidi", dated 1943 and inscribed on the back
Piero Leidi, an artist of Brescia origins, studied in Lugano with Luigi Rossi (1852-1923), a staunch supporter of en plein air painting until the 1880s; Rossi rekindled in Leidi the dedication to mountain views, never abandoned even when the artist continued his studies at the Academy of Florence. Simultaneously with the Florentine lessons, Leidi enrolled in the Brescia school of Moretto painting, already in 1913 receiving the first prizes for the realistic ability to return the landscape data. Its exhibition activity was limited to the first decades of the twentieth century, in particular to the documented participations in exhibitions in Milan, Turin, Cremona, Genoa, Venice and Brescia within the Group of Independent Artists. The increase in prestige allowed the artist to also participate in foreign exhibitions,
The present landscape beautifully brings together all the characteristics of Leyden's painting: a crystalline colorism pervades the entire composition, punctuated by liquid brushstrokes that define solid volumes, in a silent rendering of a snapshot of life. The evanescent touches with which the artist patiently distinguishes the window frames and wood together with the heaps of bricks that build a distant low wall are in harmony with the subtle shadow cut between the parking houses and which seems to cool the grass. In the painting it is possible to identify a glimpse of Ponte di Legno, a Brescia municipality representative of the artist's production.
The formal lyricism that springs from the particular point of view, conferring a state of grace on the noble poverty of the place, is reminiscent of the socialist realism in which Leidi participated in the adoption of these particular subjects, of silent contemplation. These views can be combined with various charcoal drawings depicting workers and peasants, based on the contemporary experiences of Giuseppe Pellizza da Volpedo and Francesco Filippini.
- Dimensions:Height: 9.06 in (23 cm)Width: 6.7 in (17 cm)Depth: 0.79 in (2 cm)
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- Date of Manufacture:1943
- Condition:Wear consistent with age and use.
- Seller Location:Milan, IT
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU5918226509162
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