Renato Guttuso - The Contract by Edoardo De Filippo

The collection of graphics includes preparatory drawings and sketches for the sets and costumes for Eduardo De Filippo's comedy. The opera premiered in 1967 at the Teatro San Ferdinando in Naples.

Although they are preparatory drawings and sketches for stage sets, the graphics represent a precious testimony to Renato Guttuso's artistic quality. This extraordinary quality is evident in the impact of his bold, black line, which in just a few strokes constructs a tangible, concrete reality. This brings us back to two fundamental elements of Guttuso's art, well expressed in this series of works. First, his realism, which is found in the concreteness and richness of detail of the representation. And, consequently, the careful investigation of volumes, the almost geometric exaltation of forms, which are laid out in a space with multiple perspective directions.

Renato Guttuso, born in Bagheria in 1911 and died in Rome in 1987, was a painter deeply involved in politics and social issues. His artistic commitment stemmed from his socialist ideals and his outrage over social injustice and abuses of power. He participated in the Fronte Nuovo delle Arti group, developing a Realist-Expressionist style of painting and developing his "social art." Guttuso's most important works, expressing his Neorealist art, were masterpieces such as Ficilazione in Campagna (Fucilation in the Countryside) and Fuga dall'Etna (Escape from Etna). He was also elected senator twice, in 1976 and 1979, for the Italian Communist Party.

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