"Valle Imagna", oil on canvas, 60 x 120 cm, work by Luigi Locatelli known as Bigì (1904-83), one of the most gifted members of the Locatelli family of Bergamo, three generations of excellent artists including 8 painters and 1 sculptor (*).
Indifferent to the Novecento fashion and its neo-primitive and archaizing accents, Luigi Locatelli, like his cousin Romualdo, remained faithful to the eminently Bergamasque tradition of "beautiful painting", painting with funambolic virtuosity innovative and original works, which he created with fast brushstrokes and scenographic solutions.
In this painting he defines shapes and volumes exclusively through colors, leveraging the intensity and contrasts of greens, with solutions of material light and bright touches of white that will also be adopted by Romualdo.
These stylistic connotations suggest dating the painting around 1925 or shortly after.
The conservation conditions of the work are excellent, with original canvas and frame.
Signature at the bottom right.
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(*) On the Locatelli family:
- for the bibliography see most recently: F. Gualdoni (edited by), I Locatelli, Pontedera 2012
- for further information and more information see: www.ilocatelli.it website of the Associazione Culturale Amici dei Locatelli figli d'arte
