Lot: 334

Junior Toscanelli (1971)
'Bildnis Ruggero Leoncavallo', 1995

Oil on canvas. 230 x 170 cm. Signed and dated lower right: Toscanelli (19)95 (oil). Framed and described as such. Included: Exhibition catalog, Junior Toscanelli's Paintings, Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen in Düsseldorf, July 27 - August 25, 1996.

In his painting, the artist Junior Toscanelli moves at the intersection of historical reference and subjective reinterpretation. This is particularly striking in his portrait of the composer Ruggero Leoncavallo, which can be understood less as a classical depiction and more as an atmospheric condensation of an era. Toscanelli takes up the iconographic traditions of the 19th century, but consciously dissolves them: Leoncavallo's features do not appear static, but rather in a subtle interplay of light, fragmentation, and painterly movement. This creates the impression that the composer's personality only takes shape in the act of viewing. Time itself – memory, transience and cultural echo – becomes the actual subject of the image.

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Reserve price: 4,800 €