ANSELMO BUCCI
(Fossombrone, 1887 - Monza, 1955)
Portrait of Cia Fornaroli Toscanini, Sanremo, February 12, 1933
Watercolor and graphite on paper, cm 31.5x25.5
Cia Fornaroli's signature on the lower left
Bibliography: Anselmo Bucci. Gouaches, drawings, notes and comments. The personal albums - Volume three. Genoa 1931/33. San Remo, edited by Guido Cribiori, Studiolo, 2019, p.137
Cia (Lucia) Fornaroli was a famous prima ballerina, actress, and choreographer.
Her debut in the United States took place in the 1910-1911 season, when she moved to New York to perform as a prima ballerina at the Metropolitan Opera House, where she remained until 1914.
At the end of the First World War, in 1918, she returned to Italy, where in the meantime, thanks also to the intervention of Arturo Toscanini, La Scala had reopened, to participate in the preview of the mime-symphonic comedy in a preamble and an act Il carillon magico by Riccardo Pick-Mangiagalli, under the direction of Tullio Serafin. Her interpretation of the role of Pierrot was highly applauded, so much so that the following year the show was reprised at the Teatro Costanzi in Rome, this time with Fornaroli in the role of Columbina.
In 1916 Fornaroli moved to Rome, albeit discontinuously, to participate in some films as an actress.
In 1922 she returned to La Scala for the 1922-1923 season both as a ballerina and as a choreographer.
She married Walter Toscanini, the eldest son of Arturo Toscanini.
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The work is included in the third volume of a series dedicated to the Master of Fossombrone.
It is the complete re-proposition of his private albums.
"Anselmo Bucci. Gouaches, drawings, notes and comments. The personal albums - Volume three. Genoa 1931/33. San Remo." edited by Guido Cribiori
232 color pages, size cm 28.5x23
The project aims to protect the artist's work and at the same time make public, usable and purchasable by the public splendid drawings that Bucci made during the 1920s and 1930s during his travels in Italy, Europe, the Middle East and the East.
The works, framed, are offered accompanied by the complete reproduction of the volume that originally contained them and that documents the genesis of the Master's creative moment.
The Studiolo gallery proceeds with the archiving of the Master's works through the Anselmo Bucci Archive Milan
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