Il musicista

The Musician

Oil on canvas, 65×60 cm Circa 1933 Signed at lower right Manciano, Collection of the City of Manciano This smiling portrait of a young boy proud of his role as trombonist in the town band is captured by Pascucci with a well-chosen, non-traditional photographic framing and rich pasty colours applied

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Scena di carnevale o Festa in famiglia

Carnival Scene or Family Festivities or Carnival Revelry

Oil on canvas, 123.3×200 cm Before 1934 Signed legibly on the edge of the bench; another incomplete signature is present at the bottom far right corner Manciano, Collection of the City of Manciano On the back of the painting’s original stretcher was written “Carnival scene,” while in 1934 the work

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Bozzetto per Gesù morto prima della processione o Il Venerdì

Bozzetto for The Dead Christ: Before the Procession or Good Friday

Oil on cardboard, 59×83 cm 1927-1928 Manciano, Collection of the City of Manciano The work seems to be one of the early ideas for the important painting which won the Spranger Prize at the Ussi Competition in 1929, now in the church of San Leonardo in Manciano. At the centre

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Donna in nero o Concetta Garbati in lutto

Woman in Black or Concetta Garbati in Mourning

Oil on canvas, 174×115 cm 1922-1923 Manciano, Collection of the City of Manciano The sitter here is Concetta Garbati, the sister of the deceased hero, who with other family members was portrayed in the large canvas of The Hero’s Return which won the Spranger Prize in 1924 in the fourth

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Il padre o Primi sospetti

The Father or First Suspicions

Oil on canvas, 135×173 cm Before 1916 Siena, Collection of the Società di Esecutori di Pie Disposizioni Presented in 1916 in Rome with the title First Suspicions, this painting presents an after-dinner scene of a family around a dining table on which the child has already fallen asleep. The father,

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Interno di cucina con figura di donna

Interior of a Kitchen with a Female Figure

Oil on canvas, 44.5×53.5 cm Datable circa 1905-1915 Manciano, private collection Like the preceding painting, this one too seems to be preparatory for a larger picture, which we do not know and may never have been painted. In a kitchen crowded with copper pitchers and pots, a carefully groomed young

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La rattoppatrice

The Mender

Oil on canvas, 65×51.5 cm Before 1914 Manciano, private collection This attractive genre scene, painted according to the stylistic principles of international realism, seems to evoke the seventeenth-century Dutch tradition in offering the image of a woman intent on her work in a domestic interior illuminated only by the feeble

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Rassegnati o Rassegnazione

Resigned or Resignation

Oil on canvas, 205×180 cm Before 1914 Siena, Monte dei Paschi di Siena Collection Exhibited in Rome in 1914, the canvas offers an image of life lived in total indigence, photographed with implacable realism: a man in his underwear is trying to get warm next to the embers in a

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Ritratto del Niccolai

Portrait of Niccolai

Oil on canvas, 57.7×36.8 cm Signed twice in red, at the bottom Circa 1897-1908 Manciano, private collection Here Pascucci portrays a fellow townsman distinguished by his interesting, eccentric physiognomy: a long, flowing beard, red like his moustache and hair, Norman colouring; a full, ruddy, smiling face that exudes vitality and

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Bozzetto per Gli Apostoli o Il Giovedì Santo

Bozzetto for The Apostles or Holy Thursday

Oil on canvas. 30.5×72 cm Signed at lower right Circa 1908 Pitigliano, private collection This oil sketch for The Apostles already clearly indicates the final composition, luminous and rhythmic, but the faces are mere quick touches of the brush; they would later be the object of detailed study, like the

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