Armando Spadini – Self-portrait in armour

Self-portrait in armour • 1902

Oil on cardboard applied on canvas, 66 × 57 cm

Backside, ancient label referring to the monograph by  Adolfo Venturi and Emilio Cecchi of 1927; label of exhibition Armando Spadini, Rome, Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna, 1983-1984 and of Bruno Tartaglia, lender Scuffi Firenze.

Bibliographya: E. Cecchi (ed. by), Armando Spadini catalogo dell’opera. Duecentocinquantasei tavole, with a text by A. Venturi, A. Mondadori, Milan 1927, p. XXXVII; A. Parronchi, Artisti toscani del primo Novecento, Florence 1958, pl.. 89 (dated 1904); Spadini, exhibition catalogue (Rome, Galleria nazionale d’arte moderna), edited by P. Rosazza Ferraris and L. Titonel, Milan 1983, p. 21 ill.; Armando Spadini tra Ottocento e Avanguardia, exhibition catalogue (Poggio a Cajano, Villa Medicea), edited by M. Fagiolo dell’Arco, Milan, 1995, pp. 13, 14 ill.