Pasquale Avallone (attribution) - Untitled

Portraiture is one of the most widespread artistic expressions, especially in painting, but also in sculpture, throughout the ages. Portraiture is, first and foremost, a description of the subject depicted, an attempt to capture their physiognomy and individual characteristics truthfully and naturally. With the progressive evolution of artistic research, the physiognomic description of the subject has also been accompanied by a psychological one. Therefore, over the centuries, portraiture has also become a means of introspective investigation of the subject, their character, and their state of mind. The processes of abstraction brought about by contemporary art have contributed to this type of investigation.

This painting is a work of exquisite craftsmanship, in which Pasquale Avallone demonstrates his remarkable technique, enabling him to achieve a completely naturalistic rendering of the subject and a detailed, precise physiognomy. The artist is completely faithful to an objective rendering of the portrait, accurately capturing every detail. Indeed, it can be said that his interpretation is decidedly realistic. This means that the artist does not intend to idealize the subject. The boy's face and demeanor are depicted as they are, with his features and a completely casual pose. The artist is unafraid of the truthfulness of the representation, even in its most unpleasant aspects, of a popular figure. This is a pictorial conception that pursues absolute, uncompromising realism.

Pasquale Avallone (Salerno, 1884 – 1965) was an Italian painter and sculptor. Avallone is the leading Salerno painter of the first half of the twentieth century: his vast output includes the large decorative cycles he worked on for the Chamber of Commerce in 1927, the Bank of Italy in 1928, and above all for the City Hall, where he worked for over a decade, from 1936 to 1947. Here he created a grandiose epic cycle of the history of his hometown, spanning over 160 square meters, which evokes the city's most salient events and moments of greatest glory.

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