(Monte Vidon Corrado 1894–1958) Studio, Notturno, 1955, oil on paper laid down on canvas, 19.7 x 22.5 cm, framed, (PP)

Provenance: Private Collection, Italy – acquired in 1983 from Caterina Hellstrom Riccitelli, daughter of the artist

Exhibition: Ascoli Piceno, Palazzo dei Capitani del Popolo, Osvaldo Licini, dipinti e disegni, September - November 1988, exh. cat. no.128, p. 116 with ill.

Literature: Giuseppe Marchiori, I cieli segreti di Osvaldo Licini, ed. Alfieri, Venice 1968, p. 294, no. 513, ill. no. 352, p. 251 (with incorrect dimensions)

“Until four years ago I did everything I could in order to create good paintings from real life. Then doubts came up. Doubting is not a sign of weakness, it implies strength. [...] I have now become convinced that I - just as many other painters still do - was producing a type of painting that is old-fashioned, passé, not in keeping with our time and against the real nature of painting, which is not to imitate. Painting is the art of freely-conceived colours and forms, it is also a wilful act of creation and, unlike architecture, it is an irrational art, where creativity and imagination predominate.”
(Osvaldo Licini, 1935)