Massimo Campigli Amiche velate signed and dated (in b...

Massimo Campigli Amiche velate signed and dated (lower right) oil on canvas 78 x 55 cm. Executed in 1948 Work registered at the Campigli Archives, Saint-Tropez, with no. 8151458, as authenticated on photograph Provenance: Galleria Medea, Milan. Private collection Exhibitions: Bologna, Galleria Marescalchi, Lo Specchio di Giuditta. La favola senza fine di Massimo Campigli 1895/1971, 1981, p.21 (illustrated) Venice, Circolo Artistico Palazzo delle Prigioni Vecchie, La favola senza fine di Massimo Campigli 1895/1971, 1983, p.21 (illustrated) Bibliography: R. De Grada, Campigli, Rome 1969, p.82 (wrong measure and date)Serafini, Omaggio a Campigli, Rome 1972, p.83 (wrong measure) N. Campigli, E. Weiss, M. Weiss, Campigli, Catalogue Raisonné, Cinisello Balsamo 2013, vol. II, p. 584, no. 48-039. Massimo Campigli (Berlin, 1895 - 1971, St. Tropez) Trained through the Futurist painters and later attracted to Purism, Fernand Léger, Picasso's neoclassical works, and metaphysical painting, in 1928 he visited the Etruscan collection of Villa Giulia in Rome and became deeply fascinated by ancient art. Thus began a search for Cretan, Pompeian, and Coptic art, as well as Etruscan art. His canvases begin to be populated with graceful female figures, who are painted in confined settings of symbolic significance. He also changes his way of painting, which comes very close to the fresco technique, using few colors and geometrizing figures and objects. It was in 1929 that together with Giorgio de Chirico, Gino Severini and other artists he founded the group "Les Italiens de Paris" and in 1933 he signed the "Manifesto della Pittura Murale" with Sironi, Carrà and Funi. Estimate € 110,000 - 130,000