Osvaldo Licini

The exhibition gathers about 90 works, essential for the artistic career of Licini, central character of the Italian art scene of the first half of the Twentieth Century.
From ‘Autoritratto/Self-portrait’, donated to Giorgio Morandi in 1914, there are on display rare futurist paintings, the canvases from the French years, which are influenced by Matisse and Braque, the abstract masterpieces of the years of the Il Milione Gallery, as well as the ‘Amalassunta’ and the rebel Angels of the postwar period.
After a figurative experience and once he abandoned every realist and twentieth-century feature, Licini completely devoted himself to abstract art, a period which includes him in the multi-coloured Milanense cultural world of the ’30s-’40s, a period full of new elements and unrest.