Drinker
Technical Details
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Title
Drinker -
Author
Arturo Martini -
Year
1928 - 9 -
Dimensions
cm 150.5 x 54 x 70 -
Inventory
5106 -
Room
43 -
Signature
Martini
A self-taught sculptor, Arturo Martini worked at a very young age in a ceramics factory, developing a love for the plastic effects of clay that was destined to characterize all his later production.
After a sojourn in Paris, where he frequented Amedeo Modigliani, Giorgio de Chirico, Savinio, Medardo Rosso and Boccioni, among others, he returned to Italy, drawing closer to the Novecento group and the magazine “Valori Plastici.”
The Drinker develops a typically late nineteenth-century subject in a style reminiscent of Carrà’s mannequins, as well as the broad, dilated figures of Novecentist poetics.
