01 Works The Art Of The Nude, with footnotes # 37

Romualdo Locatelli, (Italian, 1905-1943)

Risveglio/Awakening

Oil on canvas

117.5 x 91cm (46 1/4 x 35 13/16in).

Private Collection

For Locatelli there are no problems beyond the beauty of the abundance of life. One will find no depth and metaphysical ideas in his work. In a spontaneous manner he reveals the beauty of the body and nature. Here there is no sadness and sorrow that are shown, but their opposite, the beauty and happiness of the world. Here are no complicated voices from a mysterious psyche but here is presented pure pleasure of the senses. (V. N. De Javabode, 1939) 

Romualdo Locatelli ( Bergamo , 1905 - Manila , 1943?) Was an Italian painter. Born into a family of painters and decorators, in whose workshop was formed nine artists. He learnt from his father the art of restoration and decoration. He applied to the art school Andrea Fantoni, then to Pontian Loverini Accademia Carrara. 

A fall from the scaffolding for the wall decoration of a church seriously compromising the health of his father, and probably influences the choice of Romualdo moving permanently to painting at the easel and in the studio. His fame began when he was just seventeen with his work PAIN, which portrayed the sick and ailing father. 

Driven by an insatiable wanderlust Romualdo travels to Sardinia, Abruzzo, Tuscany and as far as Africa, with his friend Ernesto Quarter Marchiò. He then moved to Rome, where Prince Umberto of Savoy commissioned the portraits of his children Vittorio Emanuele and Maria Pia. Despite the extreme success he achieved in the capital with his studio in via Margutta, he decides to move to the East. In 1939 he left Indonesia, first in Jakarta and then to Bali, where he became friends with the Italian-Egyptian painter Emilio Ambron. Numerous friendships in diplomatic circles enabled him to exhibit in New York city in 1941. 

Eventually Romualdo was no longer able to work; and his only entertainment was to go hunting. On February 24, 1943 went out hunting and did not return. More on Romualdo Locatelli

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