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Surface 141
In my country
The Red Girl (Head of a Red Haired Woman)
Abstraction with Brown Burlap (Sacco)
Orange Car Crash (5 Deaths 11 Times in Orange) (Orange Disaster)
Still life
San Martino and the poor man
A mummified culture
Coat stand (from Naples)
Terrible animal
Sill for one color (Sill for one turquoise)
Living Sculpture
Without title
Archeology
Grafting
The man who broke the statue of God
Thumb print
Archeology
The Four III
Compassion
MDLXIV
Portrait Relief of Claude Pascal
Spots
Era
Drums, bells and cowbells
House
Be breathe
Archeology
DadAndroginErmete
Without title
Prepare yourself for a cosmic-astronomical masterpiece
Without title
Night lookout
From Olympus
The philosophical canvas
Frescoes
Roll of corrugated cardboard
Black-green interference
Iris
The pier (The little train)
Portrait of a lady
Aracne
Study for the death of Leonidas at Thermopylae
Asphyxiation! (left side)
The Siren (Green Abyss)
Female Nude (Ginia) (Ginia with head resting on her arm)
Self-portrait with the feather of jay
Urban landscape
Composition T. 50 - 5
Portrait of Ercole Levi
Painting no. XLV
Marina
Portrait of Annetta Levi (Figure)
Portrait of a lady
Justinian
Surface 141
In my country
The Red Girl (Head of a Red Haired Woman)
Abstraction with Brown Burlap (Sacco)
Orange Car Crash (5 Deaths 11 Times in Orange) (Orange Disaster)
Still life
San Martino and the poor man
A mummified culture
Coat stand (from Naples)
Terrible animal
Sill for one color (Sill for one turquoise)
Living Sculpture
Without title
Archeology
Grafting
The man who broke the statue of God
Thumb print
Archeology
The Four III
Compassion
MDLXIV
Portrait Relief of Claude Pascal
Spots
Era
Drums, bells and cowbells
House
Be breathe
Archeology
DadAndroginErmete
Without title
Prepare yourself for a cosmic-astronomical masterpiece
Without title
Night lookout
From Olympus
The philosophical canvas
Frescoes
Roll of corrugated cardboard
Black-green interference
Iris
The pier (The little train)
Portrait of a lady
Aracne
Study for the death of Leonidas at Thermopylae
Asphyxiation! (left side)
The Siren (Green Abyss)
Female Nude (Ginia) (Ginia with head resting on her arm)
Self-portrait with the feather of jay
Urban landscape
Composition T. 50 - 5
Portrait of Ercole Levi
Painting no. XLV
Marina
Portrait of Annetta Levi (Figure)
Portrait of a lady
Justinian

Self-portrait with the feather of jay

Mario Sturani

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GAM - Gallery of Modern Art, Turin

GAM - Gallery of Modern Art, Turin

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The gaze of a very young Mario Sturani fixes the viewer with a determined look, reflecting the passions and vast cultural interests of a promising yet complex artist. [...] The passion for animals and nature is already evident in the Self-portrait with jay feather, executed around 1928 and dedicated to his friend Celestino Durando, where the black and white feather is "rendered with attention to camouflage in the its immediacy as a find from the author's naturalistic collection ". The alternation of the two colors of the feather could represent an exhibited metaphor of dark and bright days, with a reference to the contemporary literary efforts of Sturani intent on writing an autobiographical novel entitled Il bruno e l'azzurro. The stylistic choice of the unfinished, already experimented in another self-portrait of 1927, and the graphic nervousness of the pencil stroke emphasize the few parts detected with oil colors, especially the penetrating gaze and the contrast of the white collar on the intense blue of the dress, while the background is covered with a quick brushstroke of thin color. In the angular features of the face emerges the taste close to the Viennese secession that Sturani had acquired from the Dalmatian Ugo Zovetti, a significant element of the vastness of cultural contributions meditated by the Turin artist.
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Title: Self-portrait with the feather of jay

Author: Mario Sturani

Date: 1928

Technique: Oil and pencil on relined paper

Displayed in: GAM - Gallery of Modern Art, Turin

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