Anchise Picchi, Falciatori, 1960
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Anchise Picchi, Falciatori, 1960
oil painting on wood, cm 46x60.5
Signature and date signed bottom right: Picchi: dated on the back 1960
writing containing the following words: N. 4 £. 25,000 / A. Picchi / Falciatori; label with following data: Prof. A. Picchi Anchise / Studio and exhibition Via Fiume 65 / Falciatori 1960 / measurements 60x46
Attributable to the Livorno period, at the time when Anchise Picchi moved first to Via Fiume and then to Piazza Cavour, the work entitled Falciatori is still an example of the artist's so-called “second style”, i.e. The stylistic phase closely linked to his pointillistic reflection, as stated in his aesthetic notes (1960-1970): “Without a doubt, the most worthwhile and certain technique for me is this, a kind of pointillism: in this way you can adjust, correct, add, complete, hint and achieve all the desired effects with maximum safety”.
Again, Luigi Servolini, the artist's biographer and postillator, praised this second style, testimony to the desire to access a language that was not just naturalistic, but had a more evocative value, for the symbolic transcription of the country epic.