The book is the catalog of the exhibition held in Florence from
October 15 th to January 6 th, 2013. It reproduces a mostly
unpublished selection of about 150 portraits from the Fund Annigoni
(Ente Cassa di Risparmio di Firenze), from the Guelpa Foundation
and from other public and private collections. The volume shows us
the painter through his self-portraits and the various subjects he
chose: professional artists, everyday life figures, landscapes and
villas, saints, relatives, friends and even famous people. In fact,
Pietro Annigoni rose to worldwide fame after realizing the portrait
of Queen Elizabeth of England in 1954; from that year on, many
famous personalities from all over the world began asking him to be
immortalized. Since 1949, the Florentine painter spent long periods
working in the UK, realizing the portraits of the Queen Mother, of
the Duke of Edinburgh and of Princess Margaret, all acclaimed by
public and critics. The catalog also contains many curiosities
never seen before, including one of the sketches that the artist
made for the study of the portrait of Pope John XXIII commissioned
in 1962 by the magazine -Times-, and a sketch for the portrait of
President Lyndon Johnson, which appeared on the cover of the same
magazine in April 1968. Texts by Sabrina Baldanza, Emanuele
Barletti, Paola Caleri, Giuseppe Cardillo, Arabella Cifani, Thyge
Christian Fons, Franco Monetti, Michela Morelli, Pekka Tarkka,
Emanuela Torriani."
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