Alfredo Volpi (1896-1988)

Acquired from the artist
Ricardo Camargo, São Paulo 
Acquired from the above

This work is in very good condition. The canvas is well stretched on its original stretcher. The paint layer is clean and unvarnished. When viewed under ultraviolet light, one can see a small diagonal line of retouches in the lower left corner measuring about one inch in length. There are also a few dots on the extreme lower left corner. There are a few dots up the left edge, in the upper left corner, in the upper right, and across the top and bottom edges. There is a lone dot in the lower left quadrant. Some of the artist's original color reads strongly under ultraviolet light, but there are no other retouches. (This condition report has been provided courtesy of Simon Parkes Art Conservation, Inc.)
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"Rather than exploring color as an optical phenomenon, it stands out as a natural element. To this end, tempera becomes essential in his work, allowing the pigment to breathe. That ancient medium projects Volpi into the past, creating a continuity between the tradition of Giotto's skies and Paolo Uccello's Renaissance standards and the new spatiality of modernism." 

Lucrecia Zappi, "Alfredo Volpi: Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo,"Artforum International 45, no. 2 (October 2006): 273.