MONTECATINI TERME (PT)

In the halls of the former convention center Tamerici Spa, 108 paintings and 30 drawings rebuild the relationship with the universe of female painter from Ferrara, one of the most important figures of the nineteenth century Italian, a unique exhibition for beauty and scientific value, which also includes 60 photographs original and unpublished, in addition to hitherto unpublished letters and original documentary material.

In addition, 18 works of De Nittis Zandomeneghi, Picabia, Corcos, Helleu, Signorini and Banti.

From September 18 to December 30, 2008, Montecatini Terme Art will host an unmissable event. In the historic rooms of the former convention center Tamerici Spa will host the show BOLDINI MON AMOUR, dedicated to one of the undisputed protagonists of Italian and European late nineteenth and early twentieth century.

Promoted by the Culture and by the Department of Tourism in Montecatini Terme, the exhibition, curated by Tiziano Panconi, the most expert on the work of Giovanni Boldini - that must be the catalog of the works published in 2002 - will rebuild the relationship with the female population of the Ferrarese painter, oil on canvas by 108, the most representative of its production and 30 drawings on paper, from the most prestigious public collections, such as Boldini Museum of Ferrara, the Uffizi Gallery in Florence , Galleria d'Arte Moderna in Palazzo Pitti in Florence, the GAM of Milan, the Museo di Capodimonte in Naples, the Civic Museums of Pavia, Pinacoteca di Brera in Milan, the Museo d'Arte Moderna in Lugano, the Villa Museum Belgaum Bonaparte in Milan, Palermo GAM) and the most important private collections.

The course will also present 18 masterpieces of De Nittis Zandomeneghi, Picabia, Corcos, Helleu, Signorini, Banti, in addition to 60 original photographs and unpublished letters hitherto unpublished documentary material and original painter from Ferrara.

The beauty, especially women, was the actual plot of share Boldini conducted a large survey aesthetics and a deep psychological investigation. On this basis, was able to strike an idealized model of grace and aristocratic of all respondent all'avvenenza emancipated and facial features of Bertha, her first French model and lover. Examples are, the paintings depicting Madame Ferguson, Lanthème Madame, the Countess de Rasty, and more.

Published and unpublished photos, many of his wife, Emilia Cardona, are collected here along with business cards left in life but equally it is likely to Giovanni Boldini, is the third husband of Emilia, the sculptor Francesco La Monaca - at the time also domiciled in Paris - and found in any order in the home of his nephew's widow Pistoia Boldini.

In addition, the discovery of an important witness unpublished letters and photographs have allowed us to reconstruct some key steps of human affairs and emotional issue that marked the coexistence of the distinguished but now old master and the young Italian-French Piedmontese literate who cultivated a relationship parallel .

The numerous pencil drawings dedicated to Milly, as he affectionately called, as well as new images of the furnishings and original copies - sculpture, furniture, carriages, all in miniature - used as models for paintings, found in the study of teacher complete the picture of a long life marked by convulsive attraction for women and by the continued refinement of an aesthetic than on which his original figure of expression.

A catalog accompanies the initiative Pacini publisher.

Giovanni Boldini (Ferrara 1842 - Paris 1931)

Giovanni Boldini starts from an early age to work under the guidance of his father and painter, having joined the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence in 1862, comes into contact with the entourage of the painters who attend the so-called Macchiaioli Caffè Michelangelo. Boldini's fame, however, is mainly linked to the famous portraits which comes after the experience macchiaola. Important at this stage stay in Castiglioncello.

In Florence, close to the Italian painters such as Michael Gordigiani and environment of the foreign colony in Tuscany, including the English nobles Falconer, who later became his patrons.

In 1867 he went to Paris for the first time at the Universal Exposition in Paris where he attended the fair society and lives with his artist friends in long walks on the banks of the Seine.

After a brief stay in London, Boldini settled permanently in Paris in 1871 and became the undisputed and contesissimo portrait of the beautiful and noble women of the city.

Between 1872 and 1910, the master triumphs in the salons of Paris, providing you with his portraits, a new representation of femininity, to which his clients are happy to adapt, producing images of refined sensual beauty, sometimes in a single collection and accentuated anatomical detail, such as arms or hands.

Montecatini Terme (PT), June 2008

BOLDINI MON AMOUR

September 18 to December 30, 2008 - Montecatini Terme, Terme Tamerici convention center

Schedule: October: daily from 10:00 to 20:00

November - December: Tuesday to Sunday from 10.00 to 20.00. Closed Mondays.

The ticket office closes one hour earlier - Entrance: € 9.50 full, reduced € 7.00

For information and reservations: boldinimonamour@alice.it, tel. 389.6870791