Mario Sironi’s art collection is housed in the Palazzo del Banco di Sardegna. It consists of 42 works, donated to the Banco di Sardegna in 1985 by the then companion of the artist Mimì Costa, overall heir and sole signatory to the authenticity of his works. That year, the Bank organised a large retrospective exhibition on the artist in his home city of Sassari.
Although incomplete, the collection covers a fairly extensive period of time of Sironi’s work. Indeed, it spans more than thirty years, from 1926 to 1958. Noteworthy is the painting entitled L’allegoria del lavoro, painted in the early years of the 1930s, and one of the most valuable pieces in the Bank’s collection. The work was identified as one of the preparatory pieces of cardboard for the large wall fresco created by Sironi for the V Triennale di Milano in 1933, in the Salone delle Cerimonie, entitled Il lavoro (Le opere e i giorni).
The remaining works can be found in the two side sections. They are mostly drawings, sketches, studies of groups or individual parts elaborated with a pencil, ink, tempera colours and a few with oil, with the addition of the only bronze sculpture. Many of the works on show are studies of decoration, even one which bears witness to his work as a set designer while others are studies for a fresco.
Works like the mysterious face of Moses created on the page of the Milanese daily paper «Il Corriere della Sera» stand out together with different studies of landscapes, figures, even an elegant Greyhound, but also abstract compositions from the 1950s.
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