Renuccio Renucci (1880-1947) - Marina

Important collectible painting
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Renuccio Renucci
Livorno 1880 - 1947
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Marina, oil on canvas.
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Opera certified by Italquadri.
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Tuscany Marina
70 x 50 cm
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Born in Livorno into a wealthy family, at eighteen he meets the painter Ugo Manaresi and decides to abandon his prosperous family shipping business to dedicate himself entirely to art. He begins painting from life, and quickly discovers a preference for marine scenes: the port, the Medici docks, sailing ships, Livorno fishermen become his main sources of inspiration. Initially influenced by his master's divisionist background, he interprets it with marked divisionist accents and greater simplifications.
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In 1908, he exhibited at the Florence Academy. He also engaged with rural subjects, working during the years of the First World War in Maremma, in the town of Bibbona, where he met his wife Orfa Ricucci, whom he married in 1916, and who gave him three children: Raul, Rina, and Edda, who, along with other students, frequented the studio that Ricucci held in Borgo San Jacopo from the late 1930s. He also occasionally dedicated himself to still lifes of extreme purity, in both line and color.
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In 1920, he was among the founders of the Labronic Group, along with Baracchini Caputi, Natali, Romiti, Razzaguta, and other Livornese artists; he participated in almost all the exhibitions organized by that association. During World War II, the Livornese Renucci house was destroyed by a bombing, and his son Raul died at sea in 1943. Despite the hardships endured, including progressive deafness, he continued to paint.
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He moves to Bibbona, and among his last works, rural landscapes predominate. He wants to spend the last months of his life in beloved Livorno, where he dies in April 1947. In 1957, he is remembered with a broad retrospective at the Cocchini Gallery in Livorno and, again, in 1977 with a retrospective, this time with municipal sponsorship, and the publication of a monograph.
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Historicized painter
Certified opera, signature at the bottom right.
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From an important private collection
Rare work ideal for prestigious collections
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The painting is frameless; the frame present in the photo was used solely for photographic purposes.
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