Antonio Mancini, Portrait Composition, Mixed Media on Cardboard, Framed

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Mixed media on cardboard. Signed lower left. Antonio Mancini was a painter of realist inspiration, trained at the Neapolitan school … Read more Mixed media on cardboard. Signed lower left. Antonio Mancini was a painter of realist inspiration, trained at the Neapolitan school of Morelli and Palizzi and later in Paris. He devoted himself mainly to portraiture and genre scenes of a popular or anecdotal taste, but while initially he was close to 19th-century naturalism, which led him to portray popular figures imbued with sadness (his street urchins), he later began to experiment with different techniques, using vivid flashes of light, placed on the canvas in clumps of violent color and bright flows, even using non-pictorial materials, such as colored glass, and depicting agitated figures, sometimes in imaginative disguises, an expression of his profound psychological distress. In this drawing, probably a preparatory sketch, the female face is emphasized not in its physiognomic features, but rather in the explosive personality of the woman's body, whose half-bust seems to soar upward in a lateral twist, which makes it emerge from the blurred and undefined features surrounding it. The work is presented in a frame. This piece is attributed to the mentioned designer/maker. It has no attribution mark and no
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