Rome, Casa Museo Boncompagni Ludovisi acquires Giacomo Balla's Portrait of Annetta Pardo

A new work at the Casa Museo Boncompagni Ludovisi in Rome thanks to a new acquisition: it is Giacomo Balla’s Portrait of Annetta Pardo, an oil on cardboard that constitutes an important testimony to the pointillist moment of the Turin artist, who arrived in Rome in 1895, anticipating the decomposition of form of the imminent Futurist season.

The artistic environment in Rome allowed Balla to come into contact with patrons and collectors, including Osvaldo Pardo, with whom the artist established an important and fruitful friendship. Pardo was a patron of the painter, commissioning several works, mainly portraits of himself and his family, from 1905 until the 1940s. In 1906, Giacomo Balla portrayed a young Annetta Pardo, Osvaldo’s wife, beside a window, illuminated by the reflections of red damask curtains.

This work constitutes an important testimony of the Pardo commission, hitherto never exhibited in national public museums, and represents a virtuous example of the synergistic collaboration between different professionals of the Ministry of Culture. This collaboration has enriched the collections of the Casa Museo Boncompagni Ludovisi, a museum house dedicated to costume, fashion and decorative arts of the 19th and 20th centuries, with another valuable example of 20th-century fashion and culture.

Rome, Casa Museo Boncompagni Ludovisi acquires Giacomo Balla's Portrait of Annetta Pardo

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