Portrait of Pino Arrigoni is one of the characteristic portraits made by Giancarlo Vitali during his long artistic career as a self-taught and always lived in seclusion from the clamor of contemporaneity.
The painter from Bellano was able to "tell" with great humility and, at times, melancholy irony scenes of everyday life starring men and women of his country of origin: the pharmacist, the priest, a woman intent on plucking a chicken, the gang of country and, in this painting, the cobbler. In all these subjects the emotional strength of the artist is striking, which makes each of his works of internal life vibrate, rendered through an intense and sculpted stroke, where colors blend in dynamic harmony

The work was donated by the same author to the Municipality of Lecco, following the exhibition "The family of portraits", held at Villa Manzoni in 1987 by Giovanni Testori who made it known to the general public.

Location: room n. 1