Margherita Sarfatti and art in Italy between the wars. An exhibition at the Russo Gallery in Rome

At Galleria Russo in Rome, the exhibition Margherita Sarfatti and Art in Italy between the two wars, curated by Fabio Benzi, will open on October 10, 2020.

The exhibition aims to highlight the role of “donna Margherita,” so defined in works dedicated to her by early 20th century artists celebrated in the exhibition through unpublished works from the Sarfatti Fund.

“A woman of extraordinary strength, sophisticated culture and authentic intelligence,” as the curator describes her in his critical essay, Sarfatti subverted gender roles and became a contemporary and progressive figure. Her collection counts a significant nucleus of works by Mario Sironi, Adolfo Wildt, Medardo Rossi, Umberto Boccioni and Gaetano Previati, as well as paintings by the Milanese Scapigliati and Giorgio De Chirico, whose unpublished portrait dedicated to “the most gracious Signora Margherita Sarfatti” made in 1927, is on display.

More than fifty works by artists contemporary to Sarfatti, such as Sironi, Boccioni, de Pisis, and some unpublished canvases by artists she promoted will be on display, including a Landscape by Corrado Cagli, still lifes by André Derain, Alberto Salietti and Fausto Pirandello, a Marina by Achille Funi, a Pappagallo by Pasquarosa (the only female artist in the exhibition), and a Portrait of Margherita Sarfatti by Quirino Ruggeri.

“An unbreakable bond that of Margherita Sarfatti and the Italian artistic twentieth century,” said Galleria Russo director Fabrizio Russo. “Galleria Russo with this exhibition aims to relocate Margherita Sarfatti in a more complete perspective as an avant-garde icon and celebrates all the artists who constituted the ’court’ of the woman of the twentieth century.”

The exhibition is on view until October 31, 2020.

For info: www.galleriarusso.com

Hours: Monday 4:30 to 7:30 p.m.; Tuesday through Saturday 10 a.m. to 7:30 p.m.
Free admission.

Pictured is the Portrait of Margherita Sarfatti made between 1916 and 1917 by Mario Sironi.

Margherita Sarfatti and art in Italy between the wars. An exhibition at the Russo Gallery in Rome

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