Woman at the Café explained

Woman at the Café
Artist:Antonio Donghi
Year:1931
Medium:Oil on canvas
Height Metric:80
Width Metric:60
Metric Unit:cm
Imperial Unit:in
Museum:Ca' Pesaro
City:Venice

Woman at the Café is a 1931 painting by the Italian artist Antonio Donghi. It depicts a lone woman at a café table.

It is painted with oil on canvas and has the dimensions 80 × 60 centimeters. It belongs to the Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia. It is on view at the Ca' Pesaro's Modern Art Museum in Venice.[1]

Reception

Cipriano Efisio Oppo called the painting "clean as a copper pot in a kitchen".[2] Alberto Francini of L'Italia Letteraria wrote about the scene: "And do not let the lone, bare table in a seaside Trattoria in Ostia deceive you. There is no tragedy. There will soon be a steaming bowl of fragrant fish soup [on it]. The Woman at the Café will have her ice cream, and the Young Girl will find a husband."

See also

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Donna al caffè. Italian. Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia. 2017-06-12.
  2. Book: Milan, Mariella. 2012. https://books.google.com/books?id=rGxhWDcmLGgC&pg=PA128. Antonio Donghi. Rusconi, Paolo. Zanchetti, Giorgio. The Thirties: The Arts in Italy Beyond Fascism. 128. Giunti Editore . 9788809781443.