Oil on canvas depicting female nude , author Armando Spadini (Florence 1883 - Rome 1995) -

Oil painting on canvas-nude female-Armando Spadini (Florence 1883 - Rome 1995) H: 97.00 P: 70.00 The painting has a rintelo,with wood lamp has no particular pictorial restoration This painting has gone to auction 2 times (brerarte auctions in 1988 and Pace auctions in 2019 ,it originally bore authentic on photo . Authentication on photo by Gimmi Stefanini, art expert C.T.U of the court of Milan and Lugano ,unfortunately lost. Armando Spadini was born in Florence Heedless of the advice of professors who would have wanted him to be a chiseler, Spadini attended the Scuola Libera di Nudo, where he met Ardengo Soffici. In 1901 he participated in the competition announced by Alinari to illustrate two cantos of the Divine Comedy. He won second place behind Alberto Zardo. Thanks to Adolfo De Carolis, holder of the chair of Ornato at the Accademia di Belle Arti, he came into contact with Papini, Prezzolini and Cecchi.He thus became an illustrator for their magazine Leonardo. In late 1905 he drew the frontispiece of Il Crepuscolo dei Filosofi for Papini. Participation in 1907 in the competition for the National Artistic Board did not bring him victory. he participation in the same competition three years later and the victory he achieved allowed him to settle in Rome. There he used his wife as a model for a series of important portraits. We recall La Fidanzata, 1906, Portrait of his wife in wedding dress, 1908, Dormiente, 1909, and finally the two Moses canvases where each figure of a woman is Pasqualina portrayed in different positions. In 1911, thanks to his friend Cecchi's appointment as editor of La Tribuna, Spadini was able to insert himself into the Roman art world headed by the Caffè Aragno. In 1922 he exhibited three paintings (Portrait of a Little Girl, Country and Oxen in the Stable) at the Primaverile Fiorentina together with the Valori plastici group (Carlo Carrà, De Chirico, Giorgio Morandi etc.). The following year he participated in the Italian Exhibition of Fine Arts in Buenos Aires. In 1924 he took part in the Venice Biennale with an individual exhibition set up in the Fifth Hall of the Palazzo dell'Esposizione. In the same period Spadini offered his collaboration for the first issue of the magazine Galleria (a supplement to the "Corriere Italiano"). Soffici, who was its editor, chose a drawing by Spadini for the cover and published an interview with the painter on the theme of "beautiful women." Armando Spadini died in Rome in 1925 from nephritis. He is buried in the cemetery of Poggio a Caiano.