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24.  Buying The BABOUCHE


          Artist: Amadeo SIMONETTI, Italian, (1874 - 1922)
          Execution date (approximate): 1905
          Téchnique: Watercolor on Cardboard, (signed lower right)
          Measures: 53 x 37.5 cm.
          Description: A lady trying the Babouche.


          Exhibitions
          Austria, Kunsthalle Krems, Krems-Steinl: 14.08.2005 – 13.11.2005. “Harem Des Orients.”
          Bremen (Alemania), Überseemuseum Bremen, 18.11.2006 - 30.07.2007. “1001 Nacht Wege
          Ins Paradies”.


          Publications
          •  Harem Des Orients, p.86.
          •  1001 Nacht Wege Ins Paradies, p. 23.


          Biography
          Amadeo Simonetti was born in Rome in 1874. He studied at the Roman Academy alongside
          G. Constantini. He dedicated himself to live landscape studies (Villa Borghese, Rome,
          Communal Gallery of Modern Art) and to Orientalist subjects. He presented his works to
          the expositions of the Roman Assocation of Aquarellists and in 1906 was present at the
          National Show of Milan (Alba di Quaresima). In 1919, under the invite of O. Carlandi, he
          became part of the group of the “XXV della Campagna Romana”.











































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