Artist: Aurelio Cartone
Date: 1932
Museum: Ca’ Granda – Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico (Milan, Italy)
Technique: Oil
This is the first portrait executed to commemorate Ida Origgi (1874-1932), daughter of the owner of a small trattoria, but with a wealthy mother, who can give herself a life sheltered from economic worries by complying with her passion for travel. Victim of a car accident on 1 January 1932, she was transported to the Ospedale Maggiore where she died peacefully, after having cleared the driver and confirmed her testamentary dispositions, following which the Ospedale Maggiore inherited her wealth of 3 million of lire, with seven legates of 100,000 for other welfare institutions and numerous legacies for friends and relatives. The benefactor was committed to having her portrait executed by Aurelio Cartone at her own expense, of whom she was a friend and patron, but the picture does not meet the favor of the Artistic Commission, which entrusts the task of a second portrait to Cristoforo De Amicis. Not even this work has luck; the third version by Piero Marussig is accepted. Cartone paints this work when he is in his early twenties, with bright colors and in a post-impressionist style. The artist knew the deceased, and the portrait he executed, certainly resembling it, will serve as a model for both De Amicis and Marussig who will resume their composition and pose. The painting also contains the portrait of his father Luigi.
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