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Giuseppe Pellizza, born in Volpedo in 1868 and deceased in 1907, trained at Milan’s Brera Academy. His work combined an investigation of light with attention to social life. He adopted Divisionism, placing separate touches of colour alongside one another to generate luminous effects while maintaining the structure of the forms.
Completed in 1901 after a lengthy development, The Fourth Estate brings a group of workers forward towards the viewer. Their collective march gives monumental presence to a claim for human dignity; the painting belongs to the GAM in Milan. In The Mirror of Life, painted between 1895 and 1898 and held by Turin’s GAM, landscape takes part in another direction of his artistic exploration, bringing his research into light and colour towards Symbolism.
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Oil on canvas
Bildnis einer jungen Frau
Öl auf Leinwand
Catalogue period : 2017-03-24
Published result : 8000 CHF
Fees not specified in the available data
Estimate : CHF 8000–12000
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