6. Studio [1947.]

Emanuel Vidović (Split, 1870. – Split, 1953.) was a Croatian painter who enrolled but never finished the Sculpture and Painting Department at the Accademia delle Belle Arti in Venice. At the turn of the century, he discovered the beauty of the fishing town next to Venice – Chioggia – whose sunsets and rainy days he often portrays in his paintings. In Chioggia, he also met his wife Amalia Baffo with whom he had nine children. He often paints realistic landscapes of Split, Solin, and Vranjic, and impressionist details can be found in his paintings of Venice. His masterpieces are "Small World" (1904.), created by applying the divisionist technique of wavy brush strokes, and "Angelus" (1906/7.) as a turning point in creation which marks the beginning of the period of symbolism and twilight images of reduced chromatics. After World War I, he darkened the palette painting motifs from the Split environment and his prematurely deceased son Igor appears in the paintings. In the 1930s, he lightened the palette and began to paint the interior of Split churches, and in the 40s, he drew inspiration again from the dark interior of his studio and still lifes. During this period, a pastel on paper of small dimensions was created, in which Vidović masterly depicts the depth of space with the play of light and shadow. The balanced composition depicts objects from the artist's Split studio - works of art, paintings and sculptures, and various antique dishes on an antique chest of drawers.

Dimensions

width 48 cm, height 41 cm

Description

akvarel na papiru

Research information

Under the title "Interior of a Studio with Trogir's Eve" (with a plaster cast of Eve from Radovan's portal of St. Lawrence Cathedral), this Vidović's painting was exhibited at the first retrospective exhibition of the painter's work organized by Igor Zidić at the Art Pavilion in Zagreb in 1971. In the accompanying exhibition catalog, it was reproduced on page 42 with catalog number 201.

Dating

1947.

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