Portrait of the artist's daughter, Giuseppina

Vincenzo Gemito Italian

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This large, beautifully finished portrait-like study of the artist’s daughter Giuseppina is a late work. Giuseppina was born in 1885 to Gemito and his second wife, Anna Cutolo ("Nannina"), and was thirty-four at the time of this portrait-like study. She was named after Gemito’s adoptive mother, Giuseppina Baratta. Giuseppina Gemito, known by the nickname "Peppinella," modeled frequently for her father. Numerous drawings by Gemito record Giuseppina through all periods of her life, starting with her as an infant nursing at her mother’s breast.
Gemito's career transcurred almost entirely in Naples, his birthplace. He achieved international fame after the exhibition of his works in the Salons in Paris in 1876-78. His works as a sculptor and graphic artist, always figurative, reveal a dynamic naturalism and impressionistic spontaneity, often explored in forms as fragment. His drawings possess an extraordinary technical virtuosity and great freshness.

Portrait of the artist's daughter, Giuseppina, Vincenzo Gemito (Italian, Naples 1852–1929 Naples), Black chalk and graphite

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