Adolfo Wildt ( Milano  1868 -  1931 )

"La fede nell'infanzia" 1922 ink and gold on parchment 26.3x19.5 cm, fixed by Wildt on cardboard 44x35.5 cm Signed and titled at the bottom   Provenance Donated by Wildt to Andreina Maggi and Giuseppe Rossi De Carli collection, Maggi and Rossi heirs, Milan   Literature Faith in childhood is a theme executed by Wildt in drawing on paper first and then, with variations, on parchment.   Literature of the theme   "Mostre individuali dei pittori Ambrogio Alciati, Giuseppe Biasi, Aroldo Bonzagni, Guido Cinotti e dello scultore Adolfo Wildt" exhibition catalogue, Galleria Pesaro, Milan, February 1 - 23 1919 (drawing on paper, another example) E. Cozzani "L'Eroica" 1920, Quaderno 70-71-71, s.p. ma 53 (drawing on paper, another example) "XIII Esposizione Internazionale della Città di Venezia, 1922, Venezia" exhibition catalogue, room 19, "Mostra individuale di Adolfo Wildt e Alessandro Mazzucotelli" pp.71 - 73, n. 47 (drawing on paper, another example) "Wildt" grande cartella di riproduzioni fotografiche, Bestetti e Tumminelli, Milan - Rome 1926, tav. 73 (drawing on paper, another example) G. Valori "Libri" in "Lidel", Milan, September 15 1923 (drawing on paper, another example) G. Viazzi, V. Scheiwiller "Poeti simbolisti e liberty" edizioni Scheiwiller, collana "All'insegna del pesce d'oro" Milan, 1971, vol II, p. 153 tav. n. 7 G. Olcese e V. Scheiwiller "Disegni di Adolfo Wildt (1868-1931)" exhibition catalogue, Milan, October 12 - November 16 1972, s.p. n. 19 (drawing on paper, another example) P. Mola "Adolfo Wildt / 1868-1931" exhibition catalogue, Galleria d'Arte Moderna di Ca' Pesaro, Venezia, Dicember 1989 - March 1990, pp. 107 (drawing on paper, another example), 179-180 n. 59 P. Mola "Adolfo Wildt. Ein Italienischer Bildhauer des Symbolismus" exhibition catalogue, Mathildenhöhe, Darmstadt, March 25 - June 17 1990, pp. 222 - 223 (drawing on paper, another example) E. D. Bliski, E. Brown "Jewish Women and theirs Salons. The Power of Conversation" exhibition catalogue, The Jewish Museum of Art, New York, March 4 - July 10 2005 L. M. Barbero "1900 - 1961 Arte italiana nelle Collezioni Guggenheim" Arca, Ex Chiesa di San Marco, Vercelli, February 26 - June 5 2011, pp. 36-37 P. Mola "Wildt. L'anima e le forme" catalogo della mostra, Musei di San Domenico, Forlì, January 28 - June 17 2012, p. 264 n. 67 ill. (drawing on paper, another example) B. Avanzi, O. Ferlier "Adolfo Wildt (1868 - 1931), le dernier symboliste" exhibition catalogue, Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris, April 15 - July 13 2015, then Galleria d'Arte Moderna, Milan, November 27 2015 - February 14 2016, p. 63 (drawing on paper, another example) F. Benzi "Margherita Sarfatti e l'arte in Italia tra le due guerre" exhibition catalogue, Galleria Russo, Rome, March 12 - April 4 2020, p. 94

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