Lot 53
Original charcoal drawing on paper by Italian artist Ugo Sabruni (20th Century). This piece is a portrait of an old bearded man. It is signed and mounted under glass in a beautiful frame. It measures 22 inches x 28 inches. It was done in 1937.
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Provenance:
- Acquired from a Virginia Estate Dimensions:
- 22 inches x 28 inches Artist Name:
- Ugo Sambruni Medium:
- Charcoal Drawing on Paper Circa:
- 1937 Notes:
- About the Artist: Ugo Sambruni was a creative visual artist. Ugo Sambruni was born in 1918. Artists Josef Maria Svoboda, Luis Mayol Tressera, Rouben Samburg, Jóanis Kristensen, and Sofia Nizovaia are of the same generation. Born in 1918, Ugo Sambruni was predominantly inspired by the 1930s. Throughout the 1930s, many political ideologies such as Marxist Socialism, Capitalist Democracy, and the Totalitarianism of both Communism and Fascism were engaged in struggles for dominance, and epitomised the political atmosphere of the period. In Europe, Surrealism continued to be prevail, and had grown to have influence across the globe. Leading artists took the ideas posed by Surrealism and incorporated them into their pioneering political ideologies, creating a new kind of magic realism. This was exemplified in the work of artists such as Frida Kahlo and Diego Riviera in Mexico. In the United States, the Great Depression had a severe impact on artistic output, and artists began to focus on the idea of modesty and of the ordinary man on the streets. The focus of art in the United States also began to take a more political turn for the first time, and artists used these subjects and ideas to endeavour to impact society. Subjects such as poverty, lack of affordable housing, anti-lynching, anti-fascism, and workers' strikes became prevalent in the work of many artists. In the Soviet Union, Stalin’s government was in dire need of urgent funds to implement the industrialisation of the Five Year Plan. In a secret bid to acquire funds, the government proposed to sell off assets from the State Hermitage Museum in Leningrad (St. Petersburg), which included some two hundred and fifty paintings by the Old Masters, a number of which had been deemed irreplaceable. Many of the pieces came to be owned by Andrew Mellon, via the New York based art dealing company, Knoedler. By the end of the decade, the Second World War had begun, having been aided by Adolf Hitler’s rise to power in Germany in 1933. This political turmoil would go on to preoccupy both artists and the global population. Condition:
- Excellent
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