AMERIGO BARTOLI NATINGUERRA
Terni, 1890 - Rome, 1971
>Umbrian landscape, 1932
Oil on canvas, 23 x 33 cm
Signed lower right: Bartoli

LITERATURE AND EXHIBITED: “I Maestri della Scuola Romana”, curated by A. Statuti, Florence, 2014, p. 88;“Amerigo Bartoli”, curated by G. Appella ,Ente Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio della Provincia di Macerata, Electa, Milan, 1994;
“Amerigo Bartoli”; curated by G. Appella, De Luca Edizioni d’Arte, Rome, 1990.

BIOGRAPHY: He completed his first studies with Aristide Sartorio. With a scholarship he goes to Turin and then to Paris, where he will return numerous times. He made his debut at the III Mostra della Secessione (Rome, 1915). In 1920 he shared the studio with de Chirico; in '21 he made a trip to Germany and exhibited at the 1st Rome Biennale. The following year he exhibited with the group of "Valori Plastici" at the spring Fiorentina. He attended the Casa d'Arte Bragaglia, collaborating with the 'lndex "and exhibiting in collective. In 1927 Margherita Sarfatti presented her works exhibited in the exhibition" Ten artists of the Italian twentieth century ", as part of the" XCIII Exhibition of Amateurs and Cultors of Fine Arts ":" better known so far as a caricaturist than as a painter. On the magazines and the great newspapers of the capital, one immediately recognizes the style of the cartoons and satires he outlined with a causticity of an apparently broken, nervous and fragmentary sign. In reality the plans are very well in place with the painting of lights and shadows, without anything arbitrary or casual in the witty deformation of men and things. "At that time Bartoli has already begun his close collaboration as a satirical designer at magazines and weeklies, including "La Tribuna", "La Lettura", "La Gazzetta del Popolo", "Quadrivio", "Omnibus", "La Fiera Letteraria". In Bartoli's work, the natural disposition to brilliant graphics and witty joins a tonal-oriented pictorial research. Alongside the favorite themes of landscape and still life, since 1924 the artist has been engaged in a series of portraits. He sets up a large solo exhibition at the I Quadriennale (1931), then with different techniques, such as the sculpture he exhibited at the II Quadriennale (1935) and the fresco (Banca Nazionale del Lavoro, Rome). He collects part of his production as an illustrator in the small volumes "Roma in flint", published by Leo Longanesi with prefa tion by Antonio Baldini (1934), Today as today, with a preface by Mario Soldati (1952).

BIBLIOGRAPHY: G. Appella, "Amerigo Bartoli", Rome 1990;
"Amerigo Bartoli", catalog of the exhibition in Macerata, edited by G. Appella, Milan 1994.

Good condition, slight color losses
Frame, without glass