Sunrise of Lords in Lierna Lake Como
| The Sunrise of Lords in Lierna Lake Como | |
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| Italian: L'Alba dei Signori a Lierna Lago di Como | |
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| Artist | Vittore Grubicy de Dragon |
| Year | 1910 |
| Type | Oil on Canvas |
| Dimensions | 130 cm × 48 cm (51 in × 19 in) |
| Location | Civic Museum Giovanni Fattori, Livorno |
The Sunrise of Lords in Lierna Lake Como (also known as Alba dei Signori) is a 20th-century divisionism oil painting by the Baron Vittore Grubicy de Dragon,[1] built on the shore of Borgo Villa in Lierna Lake Como in 1910.
Grubicy's painting is part of the permanent collection of the Giovanni Fattori Civic Museum of Livorno.. Grubicy's paintings are exhibited in the last room that closes the long central hall together with Pollastrini's "Gli esuli di Siena", with a single number and title: «5», «Triptych».[2] The other works in the triptych are: "Alba di Lavoro" and "La Vela".
Museum
[change | change source]- Civic Museum of Livorno (Inv. n. 157/513, 1991/1106)
Description
[change | change source]The work created on the shore of Lierna on Lake Como. Among the other aspects of Grubicy's art, the practice of «continuously returning to himself, therefore also to canvases that have already been painted for years» is underlined to better render the impression he had in front of nature and «the character in itself of the natural spectacle ». The work is in fact connected to a triptych, whose first work dates back to 1887, when he was 36 years old, while this painting dates back to 1920, when the Baron was 60 years old.[3] The work is a reworking of his whole life, and is the last work done by Baron Grubicy de Dragon before his death.[4]
The horizontal paintings "Alba di lavoro a Lierna" and "Alba di Signori a Lierna" were donated by the artist to the Municipality of Livorno in 1920, shortly before his death, with the explicit intention of placing them side by side with the painting "The sail in Lierna " to make up the triptych. A testament to their importance for the artist and his link with the ancient village of Lierna on Lake Como.
Bibliography
[change | change source]- Primo Levi, "L’Italico", Il fenomeno Grubicy nella vita e nell’arte, «Rivista politica e letteraria», october 1900, Livorno, Ed. Officine grafiche Chiappini, 1910
- Il Trittico di Vittore Grubicy, in «Il Telegrafo», Livorno, 7 august 1920
- Pinacoteca livornese, Elenco delle opere, Livorno, Ortalli, 1920
References
[change | change source]- ↑ Museo Civico Giovanni Fattori, Livorno, VITTORE GRUBICY DE DRAGON, Alba di lavoro; La vela; Alba di signori
- ↑ Pinacoteca livornese, Elenco delle opere, Livorno, Ortalli, 1920
- ↑ Primo Levi, "L’Italico", Il fenomeno Grubicy nella vita e nell’arte, «Rivista politica e letteraria», october 1900, Livorno, Ed. Officine grafiche Chiappini, 1910, pgg. 12
- ↑ Il Trittico di Vittore Grubicy, in «Il Telegrafo», Livorno, 7 august 1920