Fox with hen – (Antonio Laccabue) Previous Next


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Date: 1959

Size: 4 x 50 cm

Museum: Fondazione - Archivio Antonio Ligabue di Parma (Parma, Italy)

Technique: Oil Painting

The scene is inserted in a broad and detailed landscape enclosed in the background of the horizon by a backdrop of a typical Swiss village with vertiginously sloping houses and bell towers with pointed spires laid out in a frontal order with houses in festive and various colours, which offers the sense of a peaceful world, serene and without particular dramas. This iconographic setting thus expands the entire visual field of the picture which extends into a somewhat infinite spatiality, so that even the secluded image of the little fox on the run seems to become a marginal detail. All obviously accentuating the poetic nature of this work. The whole work is played out on parallel planes that tend to suggest

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