The Verzocchi collection or the Galleria Verzocchi - work in contemporary painting is a collection of over seventy 20th-century Italian paintings formed by the entrepreneur Giuseppe Verzocchi from 1949 to 1950. It contains only paintings of 90 by 70 cm and only on the themes of work and self-portraiture. Each painting is marked "V & D", the Verzocchi brand. It now forms part of the

Pinacoteca civica di Forlì The Pinacoteca Civica of Forlì, one of the civic museums of Forlì and currently based in the Musei di San Domenico, is an Italian art gallery. Artists whose work the gallery exhibits include: * Livio Agresti * Clemente Alberi * Beato Angelico ...

Artists and works

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, ''Tenaglia e camera oscura'' * Amerigo Bartoli Natinguerra, ''L'impiegato'' * Luigi Bartolini, ''Le mietitrici'' * Aldo Bergamini, ''Pittrice di ceramiche'' * Ugo Bernasconi, ''Vangatori'' *

Renato Birolli Renato Birolli (10 December 1905 – 3 May 1959) was an Italian painter. Biography Birolli was born at Verona to a family of industrial workers. In 1923 he moved to Milan where he formed an avantguardist group with artists such as Renato Guttuso ...

, ''Il porto di Nantes'' * Marcello Boccacci, ''La stiratrice'' * Leonardo Borgese, ''Indossatrici'' *

Pompeo Borra Pompeo Borra (1898 – 1973) was an Italian painter. Biography Pompeo Borra was born in Milan His studies were varied: first he attended technical schools and then, briefly, the course in decoration at the Scuola degli Artefici at the Brera Acade ...

, ''Compagni di lavoro'' * Giovanni Brancaccio, ''Pescatori di fondo'' * Gastone Breddo, ''Il ciabattino'' *

Anselmo Bucci Anselmo Bucci (25 May 1887 – 19 November 1955) was an Italian painter and printmaker. Biography Bucci was born in Fossombrone. Having attended the Brera Academy in Milan from 1904 to 1905, he moved to Paris with Leonardo Dudreville in 1906. ...

, ''Il ponte sul Metauro'' * Guido Cadorin, ''Pittori di barche'' *

Corrado Cagli Corrado Cagli (1910–1976) was an Italian painter of Jewish heritage, who lived in the United States during World War II. Life Cagli was born in Ancona but he moved with his family to Rome in 1915 at the age of five. In 1927, he made his ar ...

, ''Il vasaio'' *

Massimo Campigli Massimo Campigli (; born Max Ihlenfeld, 4 July 189531 May 1971) was an Italian painter and journalist. Biography He was born in Berlin, but spent most of his childhood in Florence. His family moved to Milan in 1909, and here he worked on the '' ...

, ''L'architrave'' * Domenico Cantatore, ''Cucitrice'' *

Giuseppe Capogrossi Giuseppe Capogrossi (7 March 1900 – 9 October 1972) was an Italian painter. Biography Capogrossi was born in Rome. After obtaining a degree in law in 1923–1924, he decided to study painting with Felice Carena at Accademia di Belle Arti di Ro ...

, ''Lavoro'' *

Felice Carena Felice Carena (13 August 1879 – 10 June 1966) was an Italian painter. Biography Born at Cumiana, he studied in the Turin's Accademia Albertina, where he attended symbolist poets such as Arturo Graf and Giovanni Cena. In 1906 he moved to ...

, ''Lo scultore'' *

Aldo Carpi Aldo Carpi (6 October 1886 – 27 March 1973) was an Italian artist, painter and writer, author of a collection of memoirs concerning his imprisonment in the infamous Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp. Biography Born in Milan, early in his you ...

, ''Studio del pittore'' *

Carlo Carrà Carlo Carrà (; February 11, 1881 – April 13, 1966) was an Italian painter and a leading figure of the Futurist movement that flourished in Italy during the beginning of the 20th century. In addition to his many paintings, he wrote a number ...

, ''Costruttori'' *

Felice Casorati Felice Casorati (December 4, 1883 – March 1, 1963) was an Italian painter, sculptor, and printmaker. The paintings for which he is most noted include figure compositions, portraits and still lifes, which are often distinguished by unusua ...

, ''Mani, oggetti, testa...'' *

Bruno Cassinari Bruno Cassinari (29 October 1912 – 26 March 1992) was an Italian painter and sculptor who worked in a style that mixed cubist and expressionist elements. Biography Cassinari was born in Piacenza. He attended the local art school but eventuall ...

, ''Pescatori del porto di Antibes'' *

Primo Conti Primo Conti (16 October 1900 – 12 November 1988) was an Italian futurist artist. Conti was born in Florence. Between the ages of 8 and 9, he showed precocious talent in the fields of music, poetry and painting. In 1913 he met the Futurists. ...

, ''Giardiniere'' *

Antonio Corpora Antonio Corpora (1909–2004) was a Tunisian born Italian painter who followed the Tachisme style of Abstract art. Corpora was born in Tunis, Tunisia on 15 August 1909 to Sicilian parents. He trained at the Tunis Institute of Fine Arts under t ...

, ''I lavoratori del mare'' *

Giorgio de Chirico Giuseppe Maria Alberto Giorgio de Chirico ( , ; 10 July 1888 – 20 November 1978) was an Italian artist and writer born in Greece. In the years before World War I, he founded the '' scuola metafisica'' art movement, which profoundly influ ...

, ''Forgia di Vulcano'' *

Raffaele De Grada Raffaele De Grada (Milan, 1885–1957) was an Italian painter. Biography Initially trained by his father, a decorator, in Argentina and then from 1899 in Zurich, De Grada attended the academies of Dresden and Karlsruhe over the period 1902–05 ...

, ''Massaie al lavoro'' *

Fortunato Depero Fortunato Depero (30 March 1892 – 29 November 1960) was an Italian futurist painter, writer, sculptor, and graphic designer. Biography Although born in Fondo or in the neighboring village of Malosco, according to other sources (in the It ...

, ''Tornio e telaio'' *

Filippo De Pisis Filippo De Pisis (11 May 1896 – 2 April 1956) was an Italian painter and poet. Biography He was born Luigi Filippo Tibertelli in Ferrara. He studied literature and philosophy at the University of Bologna beginning in 1914.Gale, Matthew and ...

, ''Piccolo fabbro'' * Francesco De Rocchi, ''Semina di primavera'' *

Antonio Donghi Antonio Donghi (March 16, 1897 – July 16, 1963) was an Italian painter of scenes of popular life, landscapes, and still life. Biography Born in Rome, he studied painting at the Instituto di Belle Arti from 1908 to 1916.Gale, Oxford Art On ...

, ''Carico di fascine'' * Cesare Fratino, ''La pressa idraulica'' *

Achille Funi Achille Funi (26 February 1890 – 26 July 1972) was an Italian painter who painted in a neoclassical style. Biography Funi was born in Ferrara. He studied at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts from 1906 to 1910 and joined the Nuove Tendenze movemen ...

, ''Lo scultore'' * Bepi Galletti, ''Allieve di pittura'' * Luciano Gaspari, ''Merlettaia di Burano'' * Romano Gazzera, ''I pionieri'' *

Virgilio Guidi Virgilio Guidi (April 4, 1891 – January 7, 1984) was an Italian artist and writer. He was born in Rome into an artistic family. His father was a sculptor.Cowling & Mundy 1990, p. 124. Guidi received his early training at the Scuola Libera ...

, ''Il lavoro del metallo'' *

Renato Guttuso Renato Guttuso (26 December 1911 – 18 January 1987) was an Italian painter and politician. His best-known works include ''Flight from Etna'' (1938–39), ''Crucifixion'' (1941) and ''La Vucciria'' (1974). Guttuso also designed for the theatre ( ...

, ''Bracciante siciliano'' *

Mino Maccari Mino Maccari (24 November 1898 – 16 June 1989) was an Italian painter. His work was part of the painting event in the art competition at the 1948 Summer Olympics The 1948 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XIV Olympiad an ...

, ''Scuola di pittura'' *

Mario Mafai Mario Mafai (12 February 1902 – 31 March 1965) was an Italian painter. With his wife Antonietta Raphaël he founded the modern art movement called the Scuola Romana, or Roman school. Biography Mafai left school very early, preferring to att ...

, ''Gli scaricatori di carbone'' * Concetto Maugeri, ''Ricostruzione'' *

Francesco Menzio Francesco Menzio (3 April 1899 – 28 November 1979) was an Italian painter. Childhood and training He was born in Tempio Pausania, Sassari in Sardinia, to Pietro Angelo Menzio, a high school teacher, and Augusta Pic, both originally from Piedmon ...

, ''Nello studio'' *

Giuseppe Migneco Giuseppe Migneco (1908–1997) was an Italian painter of the Novecento Italiano. He often painted scenes of laborers at work in a naïve and expressionist style. Biography Migneco was born in Messina. His father was a train station master and his ...

, ''Contadino che zappa'' *

Cesare Monti Cesare Monti (5 May 1593 – 16 August 1650) was an Italian Cardinal who served as Latin Patriarch of Antioch and Archbishop of Milan. Early life Cesare Monti was born on 5 May 1593 in Milan to the patrician family of Princivalle Monti an ...

, ''Ai campi'' * Enzo Morelli, ''La strada nuova'' *

Mattia Moreni Mattia Bruno Moreni (1920–1999) was an Italian sculptor and painter. He worked within the Arte Informale art movement. Moreni was a member of (English: ''Group of Eight''), which included Afro Basaldella, Renato Birolli, Antonio Corpora, Ennio ...

, ''La fucina'' *

Ennio Morlotti Ennio Morlotti (21 September 1910 – 15 December 1992) was an Italian painter of the ''Corrente de Vita'' movement started in Milan as a counterpoint to nationalistic Futurism and the Novecento Italiano movements. His figures show an affinity to t ...

, ''Riparatrici di reti'' * Marco Novati, ''"El remer" (Il fabbricante di remi)'' * Giuseppe Novello, ''Ricamatrice'' * Cipriano Efisio Oppo, ''La fiorista'' * Carlo Parmeggiani, ''Il santo lavoro'' *

Fausto Pirandello Fausto Calogero Pirandello (17 June 1899 – 30 November 1975) was an Italian painter belonging to the modern movement of the ''Scuola romana (Roman School)''. He was the son of Nobel laureate Luigi Pirandello. Biography After a short experience ...

, ''I vangatori'' *

Armando Pizzinato Armando Pizzinato (Maniago, 7 October 1910 – Venice, 17 April 2004) was an Italian painter. Biography Armando Pizzinato was the elder son of Battista Pizzinato and Andremonda Astolfo. He started work at 15 to help his mother after the loss of h ...

, ''I costruttori di forni'' *

Enrico Prampolini Enrico Prampolini (20 April 1894, Modena – 17 June 1956, Rome) was an Italian Futurist painter, sculptor and scenographer. He assisted in the design of the Exhibition of the Fascist Revolution and was (like Gerardo Dottori) active in Aeropain ...

, ''Il lavoro del tempo (Ritmi geologici)'' *

Ottone Rosai Ottone Rosai (28 April 1895 – 13 May 1957) was an Italian painter born in Florence. Biography Rosai graduated from the Florence Academy of Fine Arts in 1912, a period in which he was closely associated with the Lacerba group of Florentine Futur ...

, ''I muratori'' * Bruno Saetti, ''La mondina'' * Alberto Salietti, ''La vendemmia'' * Aldo Salvadori, ''La modella'' *

Giuseppe Santomaso Giuseppe "Bepi" Santomaso (1907 – 1990) was an Italian painter and educator. Santomaso was an important figure in 20th-century Italian painting, and he taught art at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia for 20 years. Early life and education ...

, ''Piccola vetreria'' *

Aligi Sassu Aligi Sassu (17 July 1912 – 17 July 2000) was an Italian painter and sculptor. Biography Aligi Sassu was born in Milan, Lombardy. He was the son of Lina Pedretti (from Parma, Emilia) and Antonio Sassu (from Sassari, Sardinia). His father ...

, ''Il campo arato'' * Pio Semeghini, ''Piccola merlettaia'' *

Gino Severini Gino Severini (7 April 1883 – 26 February 1966) was an Italian Painting, painter and a leading member of the Futurism (art), Futurist movement. For much of his life he divided his time between Paris and Rome. He was associated with neo-classici ...

, ''Simboli del lavoro'' *

Mario Sironi Mario Sironi (May 12, 1885 – August 13, 1961) was an Italian modernist artist who was active as a painter, sculptor, illustrator, and designer. His typically somber paintings are characterized by massive, immobile forms. Biography He was bor ...

, ''Il lavoro'' *

Ardengo Soffici Ardengo Soffici (7 April 1879 – 19 August 1964) was an Italian writer, painter, poet, sculptor and intellectual. Early life Soffici was born in Rignano sull'Arno, near Florence. In 1893 his family moved to the latter city, where he studi ...

, ''La vangatura'' * Orfeo Tamburi, ''La fornace'' *

Fiorenzo Tomea Fiorenzo Tomea (1910 in Zoppè di Cadore, Belluno – 1960 in Milan) was an Italian painter. Biography Tomea studied at the Cignaroli Academy in Verona, where he met Giacomo Manzù and Renato Birolli, in the period 1926–27. Having moved to Mi ...

, ''Il raccolto dell'orzo'' *

Arturo Tosi Arturo Tosi (1871–1956) was an Italian painter known best for his landscapes. Biography He was born in Busto Arsizio (Varese). He moved to Milan in 1882 and attended the school of nude studies at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts from 1890 to 1891 ...

, ''Terre arate'' *

Giulio Turcato Giulio Turcato (16 March 1912, Mantua – 22 January 1995, Rome) was an Italian artist, belonging to both figurative and abstract expressionist currents. Biography Giulio Turcato was born in Mantua. He attended the Accademia di Belle Arti di Venez ...

, ''Gli scaricatori'' * Gianni Vagnetti, ''Il lavoro del pittore'' * Italo Valenti, ''Le locomotive'' *

Emilio Vedova Emilio Vedova (9 August 1919 – 25 October 2006) was a modern Italian painter. He is considered one of the most important artists to emerge from Italy's artistic scene, Arte Informale. Early life Vedova was born in Venice into a working-c ...

, ''Interno di fabbrica'' * Mario Vellani Marchi, ''Piccole merlettaie buranelle'' * Umberto Vittorini, ''Donna che lavora''

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