Ottone Rosai (Firenze, 1895 - Ivrea, 1957) - Uomo nel loggione, 1950

Oil on canvas, 100x70 cm. Signature at lower right. On verso:on canvas, label and four Eredità Rosai notarial stamps; in black crayon ".77." [Inheritance charge no.]; exhibition label Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, 1960, no. 213, therein typewritten "Loggione / oil on canvas / cm. 100×70 / [Owner] coll. Oreste Rosai / [address of same]"; label and two overlapping stamps Michaud Gallery, Florence, therein in ink "Ottone Rosai / Uomo nel loggione 1950 / Olio tela, 70/100 / N° 874/120 [Gallery charge no.]"; in marker [all capitals] "O. Rosai / Uomo nel loggione / 1950 / 874/120 [idem]"; "N° 874/120." On frame, exhibition label Palazzo Graneri, Turin, 1983, therein in ink "71"; label bearing typescript "Exhibited in the solo show / "Homage to Rosai" at the Galleria / La Strozzina in Florence April / May 1953, Cat. No. 82"; further label bearing typewritten "Exhibited in the exhibition / Ottone Rosai Opere dal 1911 al 1957 / Palazzo Strozzi, Florence November / December 1983 Cat. no. 79 p. 136"; label Gondrand, Turin; photocopy file of the work in the monograph by P.C. Santini, Rosai, Vallecchi, Florence, 1960, therein typewritten "Pier Carlo Santini / Monografia "Rosai5" / Ediz. Vallecchi Florence 1960"; small label, ibid, "[in red ink] 174 / [in marker] 1950/6"; further label bearing in ink "12491" [highlighted in light blue], ibid, in marker "2"; small rectangular label bearing in red ink "21999" in marker "622/2"; label label Farsettiarte exhibition,Prato, September-October 1995 [later Palazzo Reale, Milan, October 1995-January 1996], therein in ink "169"; [all caps, bordered] "Rosai"; in pencil "1950"; [all caps] "Loggione"; Leoncini stamp, Florence. Provenance: Oreste Rosai, Florence; Michaud Gallery,Florence. Exhibitions: 1953, Homage to Rosai, introduction by C.L.Ragghianti, April-May 1953, La Strozzina, Florence, (ripr. in cat. no. 82); 1953, V National Painting Prize Gulf of La Spezia, July 19-September 13 (Monographic exhibition of Ottone Rosai's work), rooms IX eX, Ente Provinciale per il Turismo, La Spezia, (ripr. in cat. p.43, no. 13); 1960, Exhibition of the Work of Ottone Rosai, 1911-1957, curated by P.C. Santini, May-June, Palazzo Strozzi Florence (ripr. in cat. p. 79, no. 213, 1940); 1968 - 1969, Selected Works of Ottone Rosai, texts by F. Russoli, L. Cavallo, M. Valsecchi, Dec. 14 - Jan. 16, Michaud Gallery, Florence, ripr. in cat. no. 19; 1983, Ottone Rosai. Works from 1911 to 1957, edited by P.C. Santini, April - May, Palazzo Graneri, Turin, (ripr. in cat. p. 122, no. 71); 1983, Ottone Rosai. Works from 1911 to 1957, curated by P.C. Santini, July 20-Sept. 18, Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna, Rome; then Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, Nov. 13-Dec. 18, (ripr. in cat. p. 136, no. 79); 1987, Ottone Rosai, March 20-April, Michaud Gallery, Florence, (ripr. incat. p. 8); 1990, Ottone Rosai. Paintings, drawings, writings by G. Nicoletti, July 21-Aug. 28, Scuola "G. Pascoli" (then summer exhibition venue of the Municipal Gallery of Modern Art of Forte dei Marmi), Vittoria Apuana, (ripr. in cat. no. 14); 1990, Ottone Rosai. I disegni del "Bargello," writings by G. Nicoletti, November, Galleria Pananti, Florence, (ripr. in cat. no. 14); 1995, Ottone Rosai, edited by L. Cavallo, Sept. 23-Oct. 22, Farsettiarte, Prato; then Palazzo Reale, Milan, Oct. 26-Jan. 6, (ripr. in cat. p. 233, no. 169 (card pp.328-329); 2003, Ottone Rosai. From the Futurist Season to the Mature Years, edited by S. De Rosa, April 10-May 4; Palazzina Mangani, Fiesole, (ripr. in cat. p.32); then Museo Nazionale delle Arti Naïves "Cesare Zavattini," Luzzara, May 23-July 4, (ripr. in cat. p. 31); 2020, Ottone Rosai. Painting, territory of revolt, edited by L. Cavallo, Jan. 18-March 10 and May 19-Aug. 23, Casa del Mantegna, Mantua, (ripr. in cat. p. 137, no. 53). Bibliography: 1957, Speech by C. L. Ragghianti on May 16, 1957 in Florence for the funeral honors of O. Rosai, "Salute to Rosai," seleArte, 30, Vallecchi, Florence, May-June, p. 15, no. 25; 1960, P. C. Santini, Rosai, Vallecchi, Florence, p. 212, no. 319; 1968, M. Valsecchi, F. Russoli, L. Cavallo, Ottone Rosai, Edizioni Galleria Michaud, Florence, p. 46; 1973, L. Cavallo, Ottone Rosai, Edizioni Galleria Il Castello, Milan, table CCXXIII, p. 255, no. 212; 2006, Rosai. Fifty years later, writings by various, il Portolano, no. 47/48, July-December, Polistampa, Florence, p. 32; 2018, G. Faccenda, Catalogo Generale Ragionato delle Opere di Ottone Rosai, first volume, Editoriale Giorgio Mondadori, Milan, p.481, no. 306.