66. From Chioggie [cca. 1897.]

The Split painter Emanuel Vidović (Split, 1870 - Split, 1953) is one of the most influential Croatian painters of the 19th and 20th centuries. He honed his painting skills first in Split, then in Venice and Milan. The cities that had a great influence on him are Chioggia, Venice, and Split. Over the years, he has arranged successful exhibitions in Vienna, Milan, London, Sofia, and Zagreb. During his life, Vidović changed several addresses in Croatia and Italy. In Croatia, he lived in Split and Trogir, in Italy in Milan, Venice, and Chioggia - all these places have left an indelible mark on his creativity. Vidović's paintings from the period of studies in Venice have not been preserved. Throughout his life, he often transferred Dalmatian landscapes to canvas. A turning point in his creation is the masterpiece "Angelus" (1906), which begins the period of twilight paintings with reduced chromatics. Landscapes dominate until the 1930s when Vidović begins to paint the first darkened bits of nature with expressionist features, as well as the interior of his studio and Split churches. He spent the end of his life in bed, after a femoral fracture, and in that period he painted from memory, locked in the studio. In Chioggia, a fishing town near Venice where he met his wife Amalia Baffo, he was attracted to rainy days and sunsets. In the twenties, he spent time there whenever he managed to save some money for renting a studio. It was during this period, at the end of the 19th century, that the oil on cardboard "From Chioggia" was created. This achievement of early creativity has a horizontal composition of a three-layer order. Sea dominates the painting, or rather the reflection of a boat on the wrinkled surface of the sea. The pasty, densely and blotchy applied colors create a quiet, melancholic atmosphere of the canal in Chioggia.

Dimensions

width 25 cm, height 19 cm

Description

oil on cardboard, signed lower left, in red, "E. Vidović"

Research information

The work is inventoried and presented in the online database of Emanuel Vidović under the title "Chioggia". The work is catalogued in the catalogue of the retrospective exhibition "Emanuel Vidović, 1870 - 1953", Museum Space, Zagreb, January 15 - March 1, 1987, on page 39, under the title, "From Chioggia. Study, around 1900". The work was exhibited at the exhibition "Emanuel Vidović: pasatist and modernist", Art Pavilion, Zagreb, 2018, and it is reproduced on page 69, under cat. no. 15.

Dating

cca. 1897.

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