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Butchered Ox

Technical Details
  • Title
    Butchered Ox
  • Author
    Mario Mafai
  • Year
    1930
  • Dimensions
    cm 116 x 93.5
  • Inventory
    5079
  • Room
    42
  • Signature
    Mafai 30

This large painting, of a size rarely favoured by Mafai, was painted in Paris in 1930 as a tribute to Rembrandt’s painting of the same subject hanging in the Louvre. The butchered meat, thrown into relief by the bright, bloody light and livid green hues, emerges from the tar-black background. Emilio Jesi bought the picture directly from Mafai when the artist moved from Rome to Genoa to escape the racial persecutions of the time.

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