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Monographic Exhibition at the Landscape Museum
ARNALDO FERRAGUTI 1862 – 1925
An overview of fin-de-siècle painting and literature

Continuing its programme of exhibitions dedicated to leading 19th and 20th century artists whose work focused on the Province of Verbano Cusio Ossola (which included the 2005 exhibition on “Vittore Grubicy De Dragon poeta del divisionismo”, which was enthusiastically welcomed by both critics and the public), for 2006 the Museum of Landscape of Verbania has organised the first monographic retrospective dedicated to Arnaldo Ferraguti (Ferrara 1862 - Forlì 1925), a painter and illustrator who represented the Italian “verismo sociale” movement.
Ferraguti, who trained at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Naples under the guidance of Domenico Morelli, rose to national artistic fame in 1891 after winning the Fumagalli prize at the Triennale di Brera with his enormous canvas Alla vanga. He worked in close collaboration with the publishers Treves brothers, producing countless illustrations for their magazines and books (Cuore by Edmondo De Amicis became particularly famous).
Having married the niece Olga Treves, with whom he lived in Pallanza on Lake Maggiore, he joined the lively cultural scene centred on Villa San Remigio and Villa Cordelia (Verga and D’Annunzio also frequented the latter circle).
The exhibition aims to reconstruct Arnaldo Ferraguti’s artistic development through his oil paintings and pastels belonging to genre scenes, still life and portraiture, and in a separate section also to offer comparisons with a number of works by the artists whom he most admired, like Francesco Paolo Michetti, Giacomo Favretto, Nicolò Barabino and Angelo Dall’Oca Bianca. One area of the exhibition will be used to display the artist’s work as an illustrator, whereas another will be dedicated to the figure of Sophie Browne Della Valle di Casanova, his pupil, and to the cultural climate of Villa San Remigio.
Exhibition and Catalogue Curator: Sergio Rebora
Exhibition Sponsors: Regione Piemonte, Municipality of Verbania, Banca Popolare of Intra, Zincar of Milano
Catalogue: published by Silvana Editoriale. It contains unpublished essays, reproductions and details of the works on display, documents and bibliography
Room 1 - comparisons; works by F. P. MICHETTO, G. FAVRETTO, N. BARABINO, A. DALL’OCA BIANCA;
Room 2 - portraiture;
Room 3 - rural and pastoral scenes (Idillio rusticano from the Galleria d’Arte Moderna in Milan);
Room 4 - posters and illustrations;
Room 5 - still life (including three paintings on loan from Civiche Raccolte d’Arte in Milan);
Room 6 - the artistic activities of Marchesa Sofia Della Valle di Casanova and the cultural setting of Villa San Remigio in Pallanza. Gabriele D’Annunzio’s stay in Pallanza;
Room 7 - urban tranches de vie. Lavandaie a Pallanza, canvas owned by the Museum of Landscape;
Room 8 - the large canvas Alla vanga (cm 295 x 645) completed by Arnaldo Ferraguti in 1889 - 1890 at Anticoli Corrado;
Room 9 - DVD projection of Arnaldo Ferraguti’s illustrations;
Room 10 - illustrations and books by Arnaldo Ferraguti
Museum of Landscape of Verbania - Palazzo Viani Dugnani
Via Ruga, 44 - 28922 Verbania (VB)
Tel. +39 0323 556621
Opening times: 10-12.30 a.m.; 3.30-7 p.m. (closed on Mondays)
Extended opening hours from 5 to 8 October during the Conference:
9.30-12.30 a.m.; 3-7 p.m.
Dates:
From 30 September to 30 November 2006