Study for ''Chiaro di Luna'' is an original precious modern artwork realized by the Italian master Gaetano Previati (Ferrara, 1852 – 1920) realized in 1894. Original Oil painting on canvas. Hand-signed by the artist on the lower right corner: Previati. Original Frame is included. Mint conditions. Provenance: A. Grubicy Collection (?) Until 1910; Fernand Du Chéne de Vère Collection until 1927; Chierichetti Collection (?) Until 1928. Up to now, only two versions of the ''Chiaro di Luna'' (trans. Moonlight) were known. The first, certainly exhibited at the Permanente of Milan in 1892, was purchased by the same Society and, as a custom, was drawn from the associates. As reconstructed by Sergio Rebora, the work fell by lot to Cavalier Alessandro Bellinzaghi and subsequently passed into the collections of his daughter, Bianca, and remained there until it passed through the Berlanda collection. A second version, known only through photographic reproductions and currently dispersed, was prepared by Previati after the sale of the first painting and exhibited to the Artistic Family in December 1894. The painting, moreover, had been set up in 1888 and concluded only on the occasion of the exhibition and therefore bore the signs of an artistic and poetical stratification, but continued in the wake of the famous ''Maternità'' in the concept profoundly distant from the Naturalism. The artist is struck by the idea of the Night that absorbs all things and all creatures; of the Night, in which the soul sails madly; and he composes a painting (Chiaro di luna). She is not struck by the light, because her figure would attract attention, distracting from the idea: she is instead absorbed by the night, enveloped in that pale moonlight that seems like a breath of light, a distance from a dream. In all likelihood, the study-painting, exhibited at the 1910 exhibition, was purchased and merged into the collections of Fernand Du Chené de Vère. As documented by the tag on the back, in fact, the canvas passed through the halls of Lino Pesaro's auction house and, in fact, is among the works put up for auction in February 1927 when the entrepreneur's collection was dispersed. Gaetano Previati (1852 – 1920) an Italian Symbolist painter in the Divisionist style. He became strongly attached to the Divisionist style, and even published a treatise on I principi scientifici del Divisionismo (1909). At Venice, in 1887, he exhibited L'Haschich and at the 1888 National Exhibition of Fine Arts of Bologna: Christ and the Magdalen; Oporto and Le fumatrici di haschisch. He took part in the 1st Brera Triennale in 1891 with a work clearly showing his adoption of Divisionism, of which he was also a theoretician, and Symbolist themes. He took part in the Venice Biennale by invitation from 1895 to 1914, including solo shows of his work in 1901 and 1912. He was involved in the creation of the Dream Room at the 7th Biennale in 1907 and exhibited at the Salon des Peintres Divisionnistes Italiens organised in Paris by the art dealer Alberto Grubicy.
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