Duilio Barnabè
1914-1961
Fall 2009
Cover Image: Donna in verde seduta, 1956, oil on canvas
Boats in a Harbor, c. 1952
Oil on canvas
70.5 x 100 cm.; 28 x 39 1/4 inches
Signed, lower left
Sitting Figure with Book (Green Background), c. 1957
Oil on canvas
100 x 80.7 cm.; 39 1/4 x 39 7/8 inches
Signed, lower right
Sitting Figure: Black Background, 1950
Oil on canvas
105 x 75.5 cm.; 41 ½ x 29 ¾ inches
Signed and dated, upper right
Bouquet of Flowers, c. 1959
Oil on canvas
81 x 54 cm.; 31 7/8 x 21 5/16 inches
Signed, lower right
This exhibition focused on Duilio Barnabè's paintings and drawings as a cohesive and powerful creative ensemble. The artist's sudden and early death in 1961 was particularly tragic in that his works held such potential and so clearly anticipated developments in the years that followed. A noble descendant of Italy's great artistic traditions, Barnabè in retrospect can now be appreciated as a remarkable figure in his own time and as a notable precursor of future art.
