Giannino Marchig (1897 - 1983)

Self-portrait c.1915-20

Oil on cardboard

64.4 x 48 cm

63 x 78.5 cm, the frame

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Marchig trained in the complex and cosmopolitan ambient of early 20th century Trieste in the studios of Gino Parin, Giovanni Zangrando and Bruno Croatto.

In 1915, on the outbreak of World War I, he left Trieste to escape recruitment into the Austrian army, and moved to Florence, as other irredentist intellectuals had already done before him. There, he attended the Accademia di Belle Arti.

Setting out from an innate classical inclination, Marchig’s style oscillated between academic rigour, an atmospheric derivation of Impressionism, full-blooded expressionism and the delicacy of Novecento frivolity. Winner of several awards, in the 30s and 40s he took part in preeminent Italian and European exhibitions – the Venice Biennale, the Prima Mostra del Novecento italiano and the 1937 Universal Exhibition in Paris, the same year in which he abandoned painting to dedicate himself to restoration, an endeavour in which he achieved international fame.

A lover of music and a talented violinist, he developed the idea of a chromatic harmony orchestrated around a dominant tone; a theory that, although with more programmatic intentions, linked him to his friend, Gino Parin. This self-portrait - painted on the reverse with the portrait of a woman - is particularly important as it is one of the rare instances in which the young artist depicted himself at work in his studio.

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