Mario Sironi (Sassari, 1885 - Milano, 1961)
Half-length portrait of a woman

Half-length portrait of a woman
First half of the 20th century

Technique:

Pencil on paper

Dimensions:

Cm 25x16

Signed lower right. Provenance Brera Art Gallery Milan. 10/03/1965.

An art of synthesis and extreme simplification ", with these words Margherita Saffatti defined the artistic rigor expressed by Mario Sironi in 1916, years before his accession to the Republic of Salò and those values that, in the heart of the fall of the fascist regime, will come to unravel in the soul of the artist, with the consequent emergence of that sense of emptiness that permeates the works of the period. & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; The trace of the graphic container is immediate and results in a chiaroscuro attempt on the woman's profile, whose face is pervaded by an evident aura of melancholy.

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