Portrait Of Painter - SOLD

Portrait Of Painter is an original painting realized by Guglielmo Janniin the first half of the XX century.

Oil painting on panel. In very good conditions.

Signedby the artist on the lower right. Includes a frame: 74.5 x 64 cm.

This beautiful painting shows the portrait of a woman, a painter, identified by many as Pasquarosa Marcelli, Italian painter and model. The melancholic expression and the fixed gaze are typical of the figures made by Janni. On the back, a still life characterized by a flower vase and a small jug on a table.

Guglielmo Janni (Rome, 1892 - 1958)

After World War I, he studied wall decoration at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome with Giulio Bargellini, whom he joined to fresco the headquarters of the Bank of Italy, where he also realized the allegorical cycle "History of Italian Currency" (1924). He also worked for the Ministries of the Interior and Justice and for the INA building (1925-27). He also left works at the Chapel of the Fallen of the Church of San Bartolomeo in Busseto (Parma, 1928) and at the Terme di Montecatini. In 1926, he won the Franciscan Art Competition in Milan with the altarpiece depicting "St. Francis preaching to the fish".

In the 30s, he spent time with the painters of the so-called Roman School, becoming a friend of Fazzini and Ziveri. He exhibited for about a decade: in 1921 and 1923 at the I and II Biennale Romana, in 1929 and in 1930 at the I and II exhibition of the Lazio Fascist Syndicate and again in 1930 at the First national exhibition of the animal in art; in 1931, he was present at the I Quadriennale in Rome and in 1936 at the Venice Biennial. La Cometa Gallery, directed by Libero de Libero, organized two solo exhibitions (1935 and 1936). He stopped painting shortly after to devote himself to the study of the poet Giuseppe Gioacchino, on whom he intended to publish a biography.

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