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GIAN BERTO VANNI
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CATALOGUE RAISONNÈ
GV4925
Composizione
Paris, 1949
Oil on Canvas
27.6 x 19.7 in., 70 x 50 cm. Signed lower right Whereabouts unknown
black and white reproduction, colored by the artist to render the original artwork’s colors
GV4926
Maria Stella
Rome, 1949
Egg Tempera on Wood Panel 19.7 x 19.7 in., 50 x 50 cm. Vanni Estate Collection
Exhib: Premio Nazionale di pittura, Cremona, May - July 1949
This work represents the most
complete expression of the
research undertaken in his first Parisian experience. The Cubist influence has been metabolized and helps him to build a composition that evokes the different stylistic interests of this period, making them coexist in the same space. Here one finds, for the first time, a key element of Vanni's figurative syntax: the rejection of the choice of a univocal representative model in favour of a formulation resulting from the dialectical relationship within the painting. This aesthetic was to become fully established in the mid-sixties, but it is significant that it had already manifested itself in early works.
GV5001
Peniche
Amsterdam, 1950 Distemper on Board Whereabouts unknown
black and white reproduction
GV5002
Deposito al porto I
Amsterdam, 1950 Distemper on Board Whereabouts unknown
black and white reproduction, colored by the artist to render the original artwork’s colors