Landscape

Arturo Tosi (1871-1956) began his artistic career at an early age by attending the Brera Academy and as early as 1891 he exhibited at the Permanente in Milan. He took part in the Venice Biennale for the first time in 1909 and was then present at all the editions until 1942, as well as at several editions after the war. A highly successful painter, after his exhibition at the Pesaro Gallery in Milan (1923) he was one of the main exponents and leaders of the Novecento group. Landscape painting developed throughout Tosi's intense activity according to essentially unchanged patterns. The name of Pierre Bonnard has been mentioned for his attention to the beauty of the chromatic surface texture, but even more illuminating in his paintings is the reference to Cézanne. In "Landscape" Tosi's taste for the opulence of the pictorial material emerges, characterized by the luminosity of the palette and the immediacy of perception. The work expresses an old-fashioned simplicity that is characteristic of his painting style.