ANSELMO BUCCI

ANSELMO BUCCI (Fossombrone, 1887 ~ Monza, 1955) Bou Saada, Algeria, 1913 Oil on canvas 28.5x35 cm Signed and dated lower right “A Bucci/Bou Saada, 1913” Provenance: Marco Fossati collection - Bucci Heirs The Studiolo gallery proceeds with the archiving of the Master's works through the Anselmo Bucci Archive Milan for information info@studiolo.it A new building stands out on Bucci's path, another Marabout. The trip to Sardinia leaves chromatic traces that will become a constant of certain vedutista works by Bucci, even Parisian ones: the water-colored blues that look like watercolor stains, the delicate earths and the pencil, as always, to trace furrows in the oil and mark the boundaries between what is earth and sky. As if artistic maturity had really come about, after the years in Paris and endless humanistic studies, carried out through voracious autonomous readings of the classics of world literature. At 25, Bucci is now a formed and directed artist, with his stubborn, extraordinary and incorruptible tenacity, to become a very important, fundamental unknown. Bou Saada is a city in Algeria, located in the province of M'Sila, 245 kilometers south of Algiers. It is also called Cité du bonheur (City of happiness) and Gate of the Desert, as it is the oasis closest to the Algerian coast. Almost every village in Morocco, Algeria and the rest of North Africa has its local saint who protects and brings blessing (baraka) to its inhabitants and to those who come to visit him. Already in the Christian era the custom (which in turn continued previous traditions) of placing every inhabited place under the protection of a saint was widespread. S. Augustine (354-430) describes his land as "scattered" with tombs of saints. Popular religiosity, closely linked to the cult of saints, has survived Islamization and has ended up integrating the old cults into the new religion. Visit the website www.studiolo.it