Alberto Magnelli * (Florence 1888–1971 Meudon) Mouvement équilibré, 1946, signed, dated, titled and inscribed on the reverse, oil on canvas, 80.3 x 64.7 cm, framed This work is accompanied by a photo certificate of authenticity released by Anne Maisonnier, released on 5 March 1998 Provenance: Collection Guglielmo Achille Cavellini (1914–1990), Brescia (until 1975) Milan, Private Collection Christie’s London, 19/6/2019, lot 310 Exhibition: Rome, Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna, “Pittori Moderni dalla Collezione Cavellini”, May – July 1957, no. 127, p. 37, pl. 47 with ill. Literature: U. Apollonio, “Mondrian e l’Astrattismo”, Milan 1970, no. XXV, p. 51 with ill. A. Maisonnier “Alberto Magnelli, L’oeuvre peint, catalogue raisonné”, Paris 1975, p. 132, 133 with ill. no. 585 MAGNELLI Magnelli’s true masters, if not his only masters, were Giotto, Paolo Uccello, Andrea del Castagno, Masaccio and, above all, Piero della Francesca, from whom he learned “the great game of empty and full spaces”, to the point of creating his own ideal space: massive and closed like a wall to be frescoed. Lorenza Trucchi, il Giornale, 11/9/1981, la logica astratta si chiama Magnelli l’artista ricordato più a Parigi che in Italia