Rubaldo Merello (1872-1922) Lot n° 49

Marine, vers 1905-1906 Huile sur toile, signée en bas à droite Oil on canvas, signed lower right 40,5 x 40 cm 15 15/16 x 15 3/4 in. EXPOSITION 1907, 1er septembre-15 octobre, Paris, Salon des Peintres Divisionnistes Italiens organisé par la Galerie milanaise Alberto Grubicy, n° 41 RUBALDO MERELLO Marine & Parmi les rochers, vers 1905-1906 Born in 1872, Rubaldo Merello is an Italian painter and sculptor. Like many of his contemporaries, he abandoned traditional painting to try to find a new technique of pictorial expression. Giovanni Segantini and Plinio Nomellini, two protagonists of the Italian divisionist school, had a great influence on his painting. Indeed, our artist finds in this style a real support for his artistic ambitions; to retranscribe the symbolic vibrations of a subject in order to transcend reality. Between divisionism and symbolism, Rubaldo Merello offers the reader a very personal work and asserts himself as a major figure in the history of Italian art. Lot 49 - Marine, circa 1905-1906 p.68 This navy is a beautiful synthesis of Morello’s favourite themes. A cliff stands out in front of the sea. Its summit is higher than the horizon and its particularly steep edges are the site of dense and wild vegetation. The colours are juxtaposed here, applied side by side with brushstrokes and not in dots. As divisionist theories explain, it is the optical mixing of these pigments that allows a better representation of natural light and an increase in colour intensity. Thanks to this treatment, Merello is able to go beyond the scene being depicted. He transcribes nature in all its aspects, including its symbolic dimensions. Lot 50 - Parmi les roches, circa 1905-1906 p.70 With this oil on canvas, we once again find the steep cliffs dear to the artist, but this time we are in the heart of the dense and flourishing vegetation that we saw before. In this unspoilt place, the reader