Sunday, February 27, 2011

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Racing

Dragged by my son Victor, I attended a session auction that included a sketch of the best known part of Eugenio Olivari, "Racing". It 'a work which, in a symphony of blues, bring back the style and spirit of the "Belle Epoque" Genovese: elegant ladies with knots of toilets, men with large panama or held by skipper lined up on wooden ladders Sturla rocks to watch the races sailing. That masterpiece was bequeathed by Max Oberti the Italian Yacht Club and is the dream of all our own art collectors: if they had exhibited at the exhibition "Mediterranean" in progress at Palazzo Ducale would have annihilated the most famous paintings of seascapes made to reach from all over Europe. The sketch at auction was disputatissimo: a great little 'more than an A4 sheet, is left for twenty thousand euro. Attending the competition was laughing, thinking back to forty years ago when I attended the literary prize "Caffaro" just a biography of Olivari that had cost me years of research. This time the award was not awarded because the jury felt that we could not give a "prize so important" to work (mine) "dedicated to a completely unknown artist." Today to take home a sketch of the "Race" It takes a kilo of gold. And the award Caffaro no longer exists.

Monday, February 21, 2011

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The sofa

In the sixties, in Via XX Settembre, there was still a small auction house of Mrs. Vitelli, my neighbor in via Lata. Dispersed, mostly furniture that came from upper middle class housing. I always looking for little pictures of Ligurian painters, there are a round of selling: when I won a lot, the old lady's hammer, and, smiling, said: "It will end in Via Lata." It happened at auction a resounding beauty of a sofa, decorated with bouquets of flowers on a white background: came from the abandoned theater scene kit Margherita. We have a crush and, at the time of the race, I raised my hand. Almost immediately, however, I realized that I have a fierce competitor: he was down the hall and exceeded every time my offer. I looked at him angrily and said, "And that check from where? Yet I know ...". In short, I was forced to surrender. The next day I returned to the auction hall to see the following items of enchantment. In one corner of the sofa was lost, packed and ready for dispatch: on the jute had pasted a piece of paper with the address: "Maestro Umberto Bindi, Rome." That's why I knew the hated opponent. When, almost forty years later, I learned from TV Bindi's death, I thought, "I wonder what will the couch ...". Things to maniacs, I admit.

Tuesday, February 15, 2011

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Women

The massive demonstration on Sunday to claim the dignity of women I brought to mind an anecdote which I attended a month ago. I was the post office to pay the subscription TV, but the wait was prolonged because a young woman had started an argument with the clerk at the counter. At one point, the row has raised the voice of a little man who was the double of Ferribotte: "Women should stay at home ...." "Mamma mia - I thought - now an uproar broke out." The target dell'invettiva has instead responded, calmly: "You are right, sir, you should But that husbands receive a wage sufficient to support his family. "Ferribotte had escaped, nock a woman who works out of necessity and not" to come true. "All in all, the episode confirmed that the" world woman ", often represented as a uniform force determined to seize power, it is far from compact: there is a woman who works for ambition but also had to grind, one that follows a vocation and that he spends his salary to be in the office all dressed 'latest fashion. My question is: which of these subgroups are pulling the sprint to the feminine revolution? It' s a basic phenomenon or a summit, albeit crowded?

Wednesday, February 9, 2011

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Santa

All the people of my generation in the family snapshot taken by a photographer on the street "voluntary." The man with the Leica, without a flash, he offered a coupon number: "Come and see the photo, without commitment, can buy it if you like." The curiosity did the rest. One of these street photographers working under the portico of the Carlo Felice and was joined in December by a costumed Santa Claus, which attracted mothers and sons. The company was called "Photo Cineclair" and was the proprietor Mr. June, who had two sons, both journalists, stenographers, one at "XIX Century" and the other to the "Corriere della Sera." The stenographer of the nineteenth, George, for help his father a photographer, often wore the Santa costume. Sometimes, however, forgetting to be in disguise, when he passed a colleague in the newspaper, she greeted him, thus revealing their identity. Nothing wrong, of course, but some editors a bit 'snobby criticized that second job, they say ridiculous and unseemly. George is not worried about it in June, was a naive and cheerful, always devoted to good, especially children. His constant commitment was rewarded with appointment as a UNICEF ambassador: he was great in those clothes, even better than in Santa Claus.

Thursday, February 3, 2011

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The framework

Tonietto met the policeman, now retired, to the exhibition and workshops genovese di Sant'Agata Worn clothing. Squared circle and often he was burning on the edge of the purchases. When he was still in service, Tonietto enjoyed an undisputed popularity: directing traffic in the square of the Mint moving solemnly on a wooden platform, the bulk physics, waterproof waxed mustache and white handlebar, made him look like a living monument. In his house, the policeman friend had two things that aroused my envy: a player piano roll of the twentieth century and a painting depicting the studio of a sculptor. I asked you to buy that picture, but the amount to be paid 125 thousand-lire - seemed to me excessive. The negotiations went on and on, to no avail. Then one day, I phoned the wife of Tonietto: "My husband, unfortunately, been lacking. Before he died he told me: "You know, that picture with the studio of a sculptor, from a Paglieri on my part." That's why I called. "Thanked moved, but said that did not seem right to take the painting for free, I wanted to pay it." Of course - I said the lady, my husband told me to give me 125 thousand pounds and not discount them. " Sborsai without a murmur. Devil of a policeman, even dying had remained inflexible as to the time when he took out the piece of fines.