Large oil painting on canvas - Alberto Alberti (1894-1974) 1959 - female figure

Oil on canvas panel, dated 1959, by Alberto Alberti (Bologna 1894-Rome 1974). Frame dimensions: 68 X 50 cm, painting: 56 X 38 cm. Pseudonym of Alberto Vincenzi; his works remained largely unknown until 1925, when Filippo Tommaso Marinetti invited him to participate in the exhibition organized on the occasion of the Conference of Fascist Cultural Institutions. He trained in Bologna, influenced by the Futurist poetics of Angelo Caviglioni, in an artistic climate in the Emilian city hostile to the Futurist movement. In 1927, he participated in the Futurist Exhibition organized at the Casa del Fascio in Bologna, alongside major artists of the Italian futurist movement: Boccioni, Balla, Pannaggi, Paladini, Prampolini, Dottori and Fillia, as well as his compatriots Sabattini, Caviglini, Tatto, Sabattini and Ago. In 1928, with the latter, he participated in the futurist exhibition organized by Guido Dal Monte at the Teatro Comunale in Imola. Today, his large canvas “Verso il Cielo”, from 1931, a testimony to his aerial painting, is kept at the Galleria d'Arte Moderna in Bologna. After the fall of the regime, his art experienced dark times and difficult conditions, but in 1951, along with Giovanni Korompay, he was one of the promoters of the National Exhibition of Futurist Painting and Sculpture, aimed at affirming the validity of the Futurist language beyond the ideological condemnation of the post-war period. On this occasion, six of the artist's works were exhibited, evoking the search for simultaneity and graphic dynamism of Futurist poetics. He died in Rome in 1974.