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ink on paper
18 x 38.8 cm
18 x 38.8 cm
signed lower right, with traces of dedication: TSignorini and dated lower left: 1 Giugno 94.
On the back, bottom right stamp of the Prandi Gallery of Reggio Emilia with reference number ( 1493 ) and written with reference to T.S. drawings catalog and reference number 337 .
Provenance
Prandi Gallery, Reggio Emilia;
private collection.
private collection.
The drawing offered here represents an interesting testimony of the trial suffered by the painter Plinio Nomellini in 1894 with the accusation of having participated in the activities of a Genoese anarchist group.
Nomellini had moved from Tuscany to Genoa in 1891, after the years of training in Florence with Giovanni Fattori as teacher and Telemaco Signorini as supporter.
Signorini, thirty years older than Nomellini, gave a passionate testimony in favor of the painter from Livorno , describing him as "one of the most brilliant geniuses" of the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence.
"I am here also in the name of Professor Fattori [...] and both in the name of my colleague and in the name mine I must affirm that the art of Nomellini is an art destined for a great future [...]. [...] We are old and we retire; let the Court that the young people who must succeed us in the way of art are not throttled by prison bars. " (f. mos., Il trionfo di N. Il Presidente, gli avvocati e il pubblico commossi, in Caffaro, Genoa, 1 June 1894).
The peroration evidently obtained the 'effect hoped for, because Nomellini was released from prison and resumed painting, returning to occupy a leading role within Italian Divisionism.