anticSwiss 26/09/2021 20:47:30 http://www.anticswiss.com Vincenzo Irolli "popular scene" FOR SALE ANTIQUE DEALER Period: 19° secolo - 1800 Luxury Art Gallery Vattaro Style: Alta epoca 393457682034 Height:33cm Width:37cm Material:olio su tavola Price:10000€ DETAILED DESCRIPTION: Vincenzo Irolli (Naples, 30 September 1860 - Naples, 27 November 1949) was an Italian painter. He approached painting at the age of seventeen when he enrolled in the Academy of Fine Arts in Naples, where he had Gioacchino Toma and Federico Maldarelli for teachers. In that same year (1877) his curiosity as an artist was struck by the work Corpus Domini by Francesco Paolo Michetti exhibited at the National Exhibition of Naples. He spent his youth in the paternal home of Calvizzano, often visiting the art dealer Ragozzino in Naples, who oversaw the distribution of his works. In 1878 with the work Portrait of the painter Izzo he was noticed by Domenico Morelli for the use of a strong palette and, in 1879, he was present for the first time at the Promotrice of Naples with the work Felice Rimembranza; the same year he won first prize at the XV Exhibition of the Promoter Salvator Rosa, an event that made it known to the general public, and favored a remarkable artistic and commercial fortune. From 1880 onwards, free from the Academy, he began his long and uninterrupted artistic career. Morelli's admiration for the portraits of Carmine Franchi and Avvocato Monaci once again aroused the Neapolitan Promoter of 1886. He was often present in the exhibitions of the Neapolitan Promoting Society: in 1881 with Una testa, in 1883 with Studio dal vero, in 1885 with For the name day of his uncle, Impression of the double bass player Franchi and He became so, in 1891 with Primavera, in 1892 with Half figure. In 1887 he participated in the National Artistic Exhibition in Venice with the works Dal vero, Chiaroscuro and Studio. Later in Venice he will also exhibit the works Pesci, L'inascoltato, L'invito, La quilt at the XIII Biennale (1922). In the years 1889-1890 he participated with the other artists Luca Postiglione, Pietro Scoppetta, Vincenzo Volpe, Edoardo Matania, Attilio Pratella, Giuseppe Alberto Cocco, Giuseppe Casciaro, Vincenzo Caprile, Gaetano Esposito, Vincenzo Migliaro and others in the interior decoration of the Gambrinus Brewery in Naples. The relationship between Irolli and these artists tightened even more in the common trend towards a declaredly decorative art. Irolli made the Piedigrotta panel for the Gambrinus with a girl in the guise of Venus and a Cupid (with the appearance of a Neapolitan street urchin) who, instead of touching the lyre, engages with a putipù. He exhibited in Munich 1 / 3 anticSwiss 26/09/2021 20:47:30 http://www.anticswiss.com in 1890, in Genoa and Berlin in 1892, in Rome in 1893. In 1894 in Milan he presented Le prima mammole and Cavalleria Rusticana; again in Berlin he presented the canvas Il Natale a Napoli (which was sold for the extraordinary sum of twenty-three thousand lire and was illustrated in the Modern Kunst). In Paris, where he had already presented the works Modern Magdalene, Pain and Consolation in 1890, he was called to exhibit at the Salon in 1907, at the Salon d'Automne in 1909 (where the work Spannocchiatrici was purchased by the Municipality for the Municipal Museum of the Champs -Élysées), also in 1909 at the Salon for the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts (XIX exhibition) with Woman with Chickens and Tenderness. His fortune, exceptional abroad, was slow to establish itself in Italy where he came to clash with the Novecentisti. His traditionalist imprint did not make him loved by the critics of the time more interested in the avant-garde, but Irolli never did anything to adapt his painting to the times. Indeed, he kept in his studio a painting depicting a painter intent on finishing an ugly Cubist painting, very fashionable at the time, showing graceful irony towards new trends. While Le Figaro of 1908 spent words like "extrêmement habile" and "séduisant" on Irolli, Italian (and especially Neapolitan) intellectuals considered him an artist sold to the easy market and to the patron of the uneducated bourgeoisie. While in Paris, in the years 1910-1915, he was defined the painter of the sun and considered excellent by Léon Talboum at the Alderéte Gallery, in Italy, in the same period, he was excluded from the Venice Biennale and, in 1929, subjected to a harsh criticism by part of Ardengo Soffici. In 1933 Irolli organized a solo show in Bari where his works were snapped up among collectors. In October 1936, at the Sacred Art Exhibition in Naples, he exhibited ten sacred works: Miraculous fishing, Washing of the feet, Healing of the blind man born, The Deposition, Communion, Christ at the tomb of Lazarus, The Virgin in adoration, The Madonna of the air force, The altar boy in prayer, The feast of the Redeemer, The feast of the born blind. Alongside the religious themes, which are well represented in the Maize collection of Naples, Irolli continues to record scenes of everyday life, to portray children, women in mischievous attitudes, for which he used his goddaughter Sisina as a model. Vincenzo Irolli as well as a great artist who has marked Neapolitan painting in Italy as well as abroad, is also remembered for his high intellectual level; he was a friend and frequenter of important cultural figures, including Ferdinando Russo and Salvatore Di Giacomo. He was a member of the Polytechnic Artistic Circle of Naples. This pleasant painting oil on wood cm. 37 x 33 "Scena Popolana" signed on the lower right and was exhibited in 2019 at the Diotti Museum in Casalmaggiore during an exhibition of important paintings from the 19th and 20th centuries https://www.anticswiss.com/en/fine-art-antiques/vincenzo-irolli-popular-scene--19327 2 / 3 anticSwiss 26/09/2021 20:47:30 http://www.anticswiss.com Gallery 3 / 3 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org) Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org).