Portrait of my mother, 1914

ANSELMO BUCCI (Fossombrone, 1887 - Monza, 1955) Portrait of my mother, 1914 Oil on canvas cardboard, cm 60.5x45 Provenance: Mario Fossati Collection (Bucci Heirs) Bibliography: The Mario Fossati collection, p.185, n.133; Between the lines. Twenty-four artists of the Italian twentieth century through images and words, edited by G. Cribiori, 9cento Milano Edizioni, 2023, plate 76, p 139   The work is stylistically close to the multiple portrait "My father and my sisters," which Bucci created, also in 1914, upon his return from Paris, shortly before leaving for exercises with the Volunteer Cyclist Battalion (June 1914) and then going to the front, in the Lower Piave. The technique maintains intact the use of a broad division of color, on the background and on the mother's dress, while differing from the other portrait mentioned for a more classic and realistic technique in the rendering of the face. Stylistically, one can grasp, curiously if desired, a return to the Scapigliatura movement of the early twentieth century, which so influenced Bucci himself before his departure for Paris (which took place in November 1906) as well as Umberto Boccioni a few years later, who will use the same technique of color division, for example, in the self-portrait of 1916   The Studiolo gallery proceeds to archiving the works of the Master through the Anselmo Bucci Archive Milan for information [email protected]