Mario Mafai – Vase of dahlias with bunch of grapes

Mario Mafai

(Rome 1902-1965)

Vase of dahlias with bunch of grapes

1954

Oil on canvas, 66 x 50 cm

Signed and dated bottom right: “Mafai 54”

Provenance: Rome, private collection

The painting’s changed colours recall the constant expressive flair of the artist, protagonist with Scipione and his wife Antonietta Raphael of an eccentric line of the Roman school defined by Roberto Longhi first as the School of via Cavour and then as the Roman Expressionist School.