Skip to main content
Want more images or videos?
Request additional images or videos from the seller
1 of 2

Arturo Martini
Sick of Sculpture - Autograph Letter by Arturo Martini - 1938

Early 20th century

$538.23
£399.66
€450
CA$739.44
A$803.92
CHF 426.24
MX$9,637.01
NOK 5,417.31
SEK 4,962.99
DKK 3,430.44

About the Item

Autograph Letter Signed by arturo Martini to Gaetano Chiurazzi Milan, January 25th 1938. One page, single-sided. on letterhead paper " Nuovo indirizzo -Via Jacopo della Quercia, 7, Milano". in Italian. Excellent condition, with minor aging signs. This is an amazing greeting letter by the Italian artist Arturo Martini ( treviso, 1889 - Milan, 1947) to the Italian gallerist, Gaetano Chiurazzi (Naples,1899- Rome,1967), revealing he was "sick of sculpture" and soon he would take his bronzes at the famous "Chiurazzi Showcase", in Via del Babbuino. The background: In 1933 Arturo martini settled in Milan, as this letter reveals in the heading "new address". Here he holds a solo show at the Gallery of Modern Art. This is the place and the period in which he experiments new techniques and materials such as wood, stone, clay and bronze, participating in major national exhibitions. He creates monumental sculptures: the giant plaster of Moses saved from the waters, six meters high, exhibited at the Milan Triennale in 1933; La sete (1934), in stone, memory of the casts of Pompeii; the bronze of Athena (1935), five meters high; The dead of Bligny would startle (1936), inspired by Mussolini's speech against economic sanctions after the occupation of Ethiopia in 1935; The Lion of Judah (1936), dedicated to the victory over Ethiopia; Corporate Justice, destined for the Palazzo di Giustizia in Milan; The Sforza Group (1938-39), work destined for the Niguarda Ca 'Granda Hospital in Milan. Gaetano Chiurazzi (Naples, 1899-1967) Better known as Tanino, in 1925 he was sent to Rome by his father to manage the family foundry, as well as to take care of the exhibition hall in via del Babuino. His interest shifted from bronzes to painting. The result was a change in the character of the art gallery, which began to exhibit towards the end of the 1930s, alongside the classical bronzes, paintings by painters of the Roman school, until after the Second World War it became a painting gallery and thus becoming one of the best known in Rome as the "Chiurazzi Showcase". Chiurazzi here welcomed numerous exhibitions by contemporary artists, such as Maccari, De Pisis, Mafai, Raphael, D. Cooper, Levi, Cagli, Morandi, Carrà, Soffici, De Chirico, Sironi, Rosai. A great connoisseur of art, especially lover of figurative art, around the 1950s he also opened his gallery to abstract works of art by G. Dorazio, A. Perilli, G. Turcato, C. Accardi, T. Scialoia . It also welcomed works by foreign painters including S. Dalì, J. Ensor, M. Ernst, C. Pernieke, E. L. Kircimer. His activity, his knowledge in the artistic field, his personality together with his character led C. to befriend contemporary painters, especially with De Pisis, but also with exponents of the literary world including in particular G. Comisso , G. Ungaretti, A. Palazzeschi, L. De Libero.
  • Creator:
    Arturo Martini (1889 - 1947, Italian)
  • Creation Year:
    Early 20th century
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 11.03 in (28 cm)Width: 8.67 in (22 cm)Depth: 0.04 in (1 mm)
  • Medium:
  • Period:
  • Condition:
    Insurance may be requested by customers as additional service, contact us for more information.
  • Gallery Location:
    Roma, IT
  • Reference Number:
    Seller: M-1127751stDibs: LU65037241042

More From This Seller

View All
Sick of Sculpture - Autograph by Arturo Martini - 1938
By Arturo Martini
Located in Roma, IT
Autograph Letter Signed by arturo Martini to Gaetano Chiurazzi. Milan, January 25th 1938. One page, single-sided. on letterhead paper " Nuovo indirizzo -Via Jacopo della Quercia, 7...
Category

1930s Modern More Art

Materials

Paper, Ink

Autograph Letter by Arturo Martini - 1935
By Arturo Martini
Located in Roma, IT
Autograph Letter Signed by Arturo Martini to Gaetano Chiurazzi Milan, December 16th 1935 XII. One page, single-sided. In Italian. Excellent condition, with minor aging signs. This...
Category

1930s Modern More Art

Materials

Paper, Ink

Autograph Letter by Arturo Martini - 1930s
By Arturo Martini
Located in Roma, IT
Autograph Letter Signed by Arturo Martini to Gaetano Chiurazzi Milan, December 16th 1935 XII. One page, single-sided. In Italian. Excellent condition, with minor aging signs. This...
Category

1930s More Art

Materials

Paper, Ink

Autograph Letter by Arturo Tosi - 1937
Located in Roma, IT
Autograph Letter Signed by Artuto Tosi to Libero de Libero. Rovetta, October 20th 1937. In Italian. In 8°. On ivory colored paper. In Very good condition, except minor aging signs. Completely readable. With an upset and fluid calligraphy, the Italian artist writes this greeting letter with some logistic details for an exhibition. "Mai dire di no alle persone gentili come la contessa (...)". ( Never say no to the gentle people like the Countess) Arturo Tosi...
Category

1930s More Art

Materials

Paper, Ink

Letter by Enrico Bertini to Filippo Fichera - 1930s
By Enrico Bertini
Located in Roma, IT
Bertini meets Filippo Fichera after he received the magazine sent by him. In the letter Bertini expresses his thanks.
Category

1930s Contemporary More Art

Materials

Paper, Ink

Autograph Letter: Esposizione romana e gioia spirituale by Mario Tozzi - 1934
By Mario Tozzi
Located in Roma, IT
Autograph Letter by Mario Tozzi to the Countess Anna Laetitia Pecci-Blunt. Signed. Rome, March 27th 1934. In Italian. In Perfect conditin, including the original envelope. Completely...
Category

1930s More Art

Materials

Paper, Ink

You May Also Like

Alexander Calder, Handwritten, signed letter, from Sache near Tours, France
By Alexander Calder
Located in New York, NY
Alexander Calder Handwritten, signed letter, 1956 Ink on paper: 2 page handwritten and hand signed letter Hand signed by Calder at the end of the letter on the second page. Unique 11...
Category

1950s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Ink

Decree on Salary Increase in the Kingdom of Sardinia
Located in Roma, IT
Decree on Salary Increase in the Kingdom of Sardinia, patent of 7/9/1838. Hand sgined Avv. io Dé Caroli. Contemporary, handwritten, certified copy in excellent condition.
Category

Antique 1840s Italian Historical Memorabilia

Materials

Other

Letter signed by the Count of Floridablanca – 1786
Located in Madrid, ES
Rare historical document: handwritten letter signed in 1786 by José Moñino y Redondo, better known as the Count of Floridablanca, a prominent 18th-century Spanish political figure an...
Category

Antique Late 18th Century Spanish Other Historical Memorabilia

Materials

Paper

Important Teddy Roosevelt Letter of January 1918
By Theodore Roosevelt
Located in Dallas, TX
Presenting a very important Teddy Roosevelt letter of January 1918. On ‘Sagamore Hill’ letterhead. Fully handwritten and personally signed by President...
Category

Early 20th Century American American Classical Historical Memorabilia

Materials

Paper

Framed Letter from the 1880s
Located in Queens, NY
Original 1880 William E Chandler letter to the Washington Post in a brown rectangular wooden frame and beige matting.    
Category

Antique 19th Century American Modern Prints

Important Teddy Roosevelt Letter from White House June 1907
By Theodore Roosevelt
Located in Dallas, TX
Presenting A Very Important Teddy Roosevelt Letter from White House June 1907. On ‘The White House’ letterhead. Typed and personally signed and amended by President Theodore Roosevelt. With it’s original White House envelope, stamp and postage marks. Dated June 14th 1907. What makes this letter so important is the author, the office and the content. It refers to the beliefs and opinions of the then President and First Lady (Edith) towards the women’s sufferage and empowerment movement that was the ‘hot topic’ of the time. It is addressed to Eliza Calvert Obenchain who was a well known author at the end of the 19th Century and Early 20th Century. In 1905, Teddy referred to her book “Aunt Jane of Kentucky’ in a speech and recommended that every man in America should read it to understand ‘the plight of their womenfolk’. He regularly corresponded with her and we have a number of those letters in our collection. It appears that both he and Edith became big fans of Mrs Obenchain who was also heavily involved in the Suffragist movement. The letters also provide a fascinating and historic record of Roosevelt’s personal beliefs and feelings on female empowerment. The Letter Reads: The White House Washington Oyster Bay, N.Y., June 14, 1907 Personal “Dear Mrs. Obenchain: I gladly accept the autographed copy of “Aunt Jane” which you have been so kind to send me. But Aunt Jane is so good and so wise that she must not (amount “race (illegible)) fall into the terrible mistake of the self-indulgent, selfish, shortsighted women, cold in heart and in temper, who shirk the duties of mother-hood and then try to cover up to themselves and to others their cowardice or self-indulgence by making believe they are actuated by wise or lofty motives. * With great regard, believe me, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt *And she must not give aid and comfort to unsexed or sexless creatures by a jest which they may take for earnest ! Mrs. Eliza Calvert Obenchain, Bowling Green, Kentucky.“ The envelope is From: The White House. Addressed to: Mrs. Eliza Calvert Obenchain, Bowling Green, Kentucky and marked ‘Personal’. It is stamped on the front as posted from Oyster Bay, New York Post Office on June 16 1907. It has a red 2 Cent...
Category

Early 20th Century American American Classical Historical Memorabilia

Materials

Paper