Signed and dated lower left: Timmel / 1915 Provenance:Private collection, Guayaquil, Ecuador; Private collection. Vito Timmel’s work, "Amazzone" (1915), a masterpiece of extraordinary evocative power, was exhibited at the 1923 Turin Quadriennale. The work fully demonstrates Timmel’s ability to reinterpret the language of the Vienna Secession through an independent stylistic voice, in which refined compositional balance and aesthetic exploration merge to create an image of intense evocative power.
Exhibitions: Quadriennale Esposizione Nazionale di Belle Arti, Castello del Valentino, Turin, 1923, sala XIII, n. 657; Mostra personale, Trieste, Galleria Michelazzi, 1937; Vito Timmel 1886-1949, Trieste, Sala d’Arte di Palazzo Costanzi, July-Aug 1978. Literature: La Quadriennale. Catalogo, Società Promotrice delle Belle Arti, Castello del Valentino, Turin 1923; pag. 58, n. 657; “Il Piccolo”, quotidiano di Trieste, 21.5.1937; Vito Timmel 1886-1949, exhibition catalogue at Sala d’Arte di Palazzo Costanzi, Trieste, 1978; Franca Marri, Vito Timmel, Nuova Collana d’Arte della Fondazione CR Trieste, 2005, p. 41, fig. 32, cat. 28.
