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January in Padua
In Fiumelatte from the railway underpass
Vibrant
The blue vase
The candle
The long wait
Medieval motif
Drawings for a fresco. Mary Magdalene at the foot of the cross
The woman of the emigrant
Idyll. The tree of Life
Portrait of Giovanni Cantù
Study of figures for spring idyll
May morning
The bridge
Portrait of peasants (Portrait of Signora Battegazzore)
Portrait of a peasant owner
Will be
The exit of the workers from the Pirelli factory
Night work at Termini Station
Piazza Caricamento in Genoa
Reflections of a hungry. Study
Strike
Ona city street
Tears
Painful reflections
To the Italian economic kitchens
I remember when I was a girl
The search for light. Study for central triptych image
Caryatids
Harvesting hay
The sower
Morning in the workshop
Going to the factory
Solitude
The sun
Hail Mary in transit
Robbery
Believers
Return from the alp
Maize on the farmyard
On the Ligurian coast (Sulla costa ligure)
Curious old women
San Martino d'Albaro
Maternal love
April morning
April sun
Midday in Manarola
The disk of the sun
Summer. Morning
Landscape. Study
Rainy day
Spring in Val Sassina
Viaticum
The melancholy of the sun
Pasture
The gray village
Landscape
The abandoned cart
Maternity
Adoration of the Magi
The way to Calvary
Penumbra
Suburb
Morning
Autumn afternoon
Morning
Figure of a Woman (Portrait of Violette)
The nostalgic hour on Mé-Nam
Portrait of Armando Mazza
House under construction

Maternity

Gaetano Previati

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Pinacoteca il Divisionismo

Pinacoteca il Divisionismo

Corso Leoniero, 2, Tortona

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The definitive oil version of Maternity, completed between 1890 and 1891, has a complex and tormented genesis, not only due to the difficulties connected with the unconventional interpretation of a great theme, but also because of the high costs of making a painting of monumental dimensions (177 x 411.5 cm.) The final draft of the pictorial work is preceded by a series of drawings. Previati is firmly convinced that the results the principles the conditions the synthesis of ideas cannot fail to fall within the field of the emotion of beauty which is always simple and to sum up which nothing is more suitable than drawing, which is the simplest language invented from man ”The artist also re-proposes Maternity in an d'après, ascribable to around 1910, pencil on squared canvas reduced by about one third compared to the size of the oil of which it is a copy. Almost identical to the original, our drawing highlights in the delicate and sinuous stroke the contours of the figures which in the painting of 1890-1891 are incorporated into the pictorial material, intrinsically included in a color that is form and light.
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Title: Maternity

Author: Gaetano Previati

Date: 1910

Technique: Pencil on squared canvas

Displayed in: Pinacoteca il Divisionismo

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