Guido Cadorin (1892 - 1976) Portrait of Ida Barbarigos in costume of "La Bauta"

oil on board

Some losses to lower section, as visible from photograph.
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COMPARATIVE LITERATURE

Valerio Terraroli, Guido Cadorin in Biographical Dictionary of Italian , vol. 34, Roma, 1988. René de Solier, Chairs and Voyeurs, Editions Bruno Alfieri, Venice, 1970. Lydia Harambourg , Dictionary of the painters of the Ecole de Paris, 1945-1965, Editions Ides and Kalends, Neuchatel, 1993, new edition, 2010.

The present lot by Guido Cadorin depicts his daughter, Ida Barbarigo dressed in bauta.

The bauta became popular in Venice during the eighteenth century when worn indiscriminately by both men and women, serving as a disguise and allowing for discrete encounters and anonymity.  The costume consisted of a black cape, tricorn hat and black or white mask, with the shape and positioning of the mask allowing for the sound of the voice to be indistinct.  It was particularly popular during the Carnival and painters such as Pietro Longhi, Francesco Guardi and Giandomenico Tiepolo often portrayed their characters dressed in bauta.

Guido Cadorin (1892 – 1976) was an Italian painter. Born in Venice, he studied under Cesare Laurenti (1854 – 1936) and participated in various international exhibitions, amongst others a 1909 exhibition at Ca ‘Pesaro, a palace in Venice located in the district of Santa Croce, overlooking the Grand Canal.  Whilst he worked in many Italian cities and abroad, his deep love of the city of Venice remained.  He taught at the Academy of Fine Arts, and it is often thought that his best energies were spent here. He was very active up until his death in Venice, in 1976.

Ida Barbarigo, was born in Venice in 1925 into the artistic Cadorin dynasty. After her classical training, she continued in the family tradition and in her own right participated in various Venetian and international exhibitions. She was married to a fellow painter, the late Zoran Mušič  and today she shares her time between Paris and Venice.