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.
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