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Ernesto De Fiori

Urban Landscape, 1941

  • Author:
    Ernesto De Fiori
  • Bio:
    Roma, Itália, 1884-São Paulo, Brasil ,1945
  • Title:
    Urban Landscape
  • Date:
    1941
  • Medium:
    Guache sobre papel
  • Dimensions:
    50 x 65 cm
  • Credit line:
    Doação Mário de Fiori, sem data
  • Object type:
    Desenho
  • Inventory number:
    MASP.03542
  • Photography credits:
    João Musa

TEXTS



If De Fiori’s work does feature one predominant theme, that is undoubtedly the female form. In this field, the artist especially liked to do two-subject or group portraits. The peculiarity of the Masp painting, Two Girlfriends, one of the great moments of the artist’s career, is its violently expressionist nature, especially in dealing with the subjects’ faces. The exhibition held at the Pinacoteca do Estado revealed the existence of another version of the same work, equal in size, but carried out in a denser impasto technique (Ana Maria Stickel Collection, Laudanna 1997, p. 77). In both versions one detects a vague remembrance of metaphysics, perhaps unique in De Fiori’s work, which is related to a not less rare interest in the play of architectural lines that has some bearing on abstractionist tendencies. Urban Landscape dates from the early 40s and may have had a substantial influence on Menotti Del Picchia’s Skyscrapers, painted in the same decade.

— Unknown authorship, 1998

Source: Luiz Marques (org.), Catalogue of the Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand, São Paulo: MASP, 1998. (new edition, 2008).



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