Fruit Vendor

This is one of the artworks closest to Ojetti and his theories of equilibrium between nature and style, between modernity and tradition. In fact this figure in bronze was part of Ojetti’s collection, which counted over twenty of Andreotti’s works. The figure appears in a resting attitude: her legs are crossed, as well as her dress folds, the left wrist on her hip and her body resting and supported by the basket full of fruit. The research of the rhythms of inverted specularity is evident and recalls Bourdelle’s small bronze “Femme sculpteur au repos” so as to appear as its proper subsequent sequence. “The only difference is in the position of the two figures that nearly overlap, for the similar firmness of the approach. Both draw the attention on the slight arch of the right arm, that performs a continuative and integrative function between the human figure and the object (the rock block in one case and the fruit basket in the other)” )” (F. Previti, 1981).

Floor:
Room: Early Works
Year: 1917 ca.
Author: Libero Andreotti