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Umberto Brunelleschi
Umberto Brunelleschi
Umberto Brunelleschi was born in 1879 in Montemurlo in the province of Pistoia and trained at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Florence. In 1900 he left for Paris to visit the Universal Exhibition. Here, he fully entered the world of illustration and theatre in the sign of Art Dèco, using the pseudonym ‘Aroun-al-Rascid’.
For his refinement and mastery of mark-making, he was compared to the contemporary depictions of Paul Iribe, Georges Barbier and Georges Lepape, captivating both French and Italian audiences. The artist was a protagonist of Parisian social life, attending and organising numerous parties with his wife, where Amedeo Modigliani, Pablo Picasso and André Derain were always present.
Parallel to his career as an illustrator, he undertook that of set designer, making his debut in Paris with Madame Rasini’s ballet Légende du clair de lune at the theatre Les bouffes parisiens.
On the market, he is present both with oil paintings on canvas or panel and with printed illustrations: starting at a minimum of 20 euros for Pochoir figurines and reaching an auction record of 30,977 euros for the Self-portrait with a puppet and a mask from 1920, in the height of the Art Deco climate.
The artist proved to be one of the most interesting interpreters of Art Dèco with his soft sign, bright colours and a dark outline that graphically frames his subjects.
At the same time, the artist executed various paintings. In the portraits, the Secessionist influence remains constant in the decorativism and in the use of strident colours applied with a flat brushstroke, as in the Portrait of Sister Terside of 1915.
In the 1930s, the artist updated his language on the trends of the Return to Order and his figures acquired greater solidity and three-dimensionality. An example of this change is La moglie dell’Ambasciatore (The Ambassador’s Wife), painted in 1937, which testifies to his constant Art Dèco attention to costume and decorative line, but also to a new interest in the suspended, fairy-tale atmosphere of Magic Realism.
