Giuseppe Pellizza da Volpedo 1868 Volpedo-1907 Volpedo

The Clementine "The work was in the artist's Studio and was included in the inventory at no. 3. Exhibited in Venice it was then sold by Felice Abbiati to Mr. Piero Parisi for 500 lire. La Clementina is a locality very close to Volpedo characterized by the presence of a farmstead, which is in fact seen here in the background on the left. The setting of the work is similar to 'Novembre' with a tree in the center of the view that spreads its branches to establish the upper end of the scene. The theme of landscape was developed with particular commitment and interest by Pellizza in the early twentieth century after his trip to Paris for the 1900 Universal Exhibition, where he had carefully observed the 'barbizonniers,' and after his visit to the 1901 Venice Biennial of Fontanesi's works that prompted him to reconsider his commitment to the observation of nature in both drawings and paintings. While in some cases the landscapes are linked to the rendering of particular effects of sunrises or sunsets, in the Clementine it is the large tree that dominates at the center, but it is a very different tree from the one studied in the painting "The Shepherds in Mongini's Meadow" or in "The Roundabout." In Clementine the theme is exclusively nature, which is embodied in the large tree under which a countryside unfolds in which we see, not dominant but reabsorbed in it, a house and a woman bent over in work. What emerges is a vision that reabsorbs and charges nature with emotional and symbolic values. The technique is now far from the optical pointillism of the 1990s but is rich in subtle variations that translate perception into a state of mind." Aurora Scotti Cm 80X50 oil on canvas Pellizza da Volpedo, General Catalog. Edited by Aurora Scotti, p. 462 at no. 1244 "The work was in the artist's Studio and was included in the inventory at no. 3. Exhibited in Venice it was then sold by Felice Abbiati to Signor Piero Parisi for 500 lire. La Clementina is a locality very close to Volpedo characterized by the presence of a farmstead, which is in fact seen here in the background on the left. The setting of the work is similar to 'Novembre' with a tree in the center of the view that spreads its branches to establish the upper end of the scene. The theme of landscape was developed with particular commitment and interest by Pellizza in the early twentieth century after his trip to Paris for the 1900 Universal Exhibition, where he had carefully observed the 'barbizonniers,' and after his visit to the 1901 Venice Biennial of Fontanesi's works that prompted him to reconsider his commitment to the observation of nature in both drawings and paintings. While in some cases the landscapes are linked to the rendering of particular effects of sunrises or sunsets, in the Clementine it is the large tree that dominates at the center, but it is a very different tree from the one studied in the painting "The Shepherds in Mongini's Meadow" or in "The Roundabout." In Clementine the theme is exclusively nature, which is embodied in the large tree under which a countryside unfolds in which we see, not dominant but reabsorbed in it, a house and a woman bent over in work. What emerges is a vision that reabsorbs and charges nature with emotional and symbolic values. The technique is now far from the optical pointillism of the 1990s but is rich in subtle variations that translate perception into a state of mind." Aurora Scotti