(Volpedo 1868–1907)
A Country Road, signed, dated and with dedication “All’amico Bonomelli, Pippo da Volpedo 1890”, oil on panel, 29 x 28 cm, framed

Provenance:
Gift of the artist to the painter Romeo Bonomelli, Bergamo 1890;
Private Collection, Italy;
Sale, Finarte, Milan, 1972, lot 40;
Private Collection, Italy;
Sale, Dorotheum, Vienna, 20 October 2016, lot 1219;
Private Collection, Belgium.

Exhibited:
Bergamo, Galleria d’Arte della “Rotonda”, mostra postuma di Pellizza da Volpedo, May 1947, no. 34;
Alessandria, Pinacoteca Civica, mostra di Giuseppe Pellizza da Volpedo, June-October 1954, no. 85.

Catalogued and illustrated in:
T. Fiori, Archivi del Divisionismo, II, 1968;
Aurora Scotti, Pellizza da Volpedo, Catalogo generale, Electa ed., Milan, 1986,

Composed using a light palette - ochres and greens for the road with a few touches of brown, greys for the wall and white with thin blue streaks for the sky. This sketch depicts a country road in Pellizza's home of Volpedo, and was executed there between 1889 and 1890 and left as a gift for his friend Bonomelli.
Pellizza was in Volpedo during the summer of 1889 where he created various sketches, mainly landscape impressions from life with quick brushstrokes.

Pellizza attended the Accademia Carrara in Bergamo in 1888-1889, a year densely populated with studies and drawings from life. This experience also reinvigorated the climate of collaboration and friendship at the Academy where he met, among others, the painter Romeo Bonomelli, with whom a lively and genuine friendship continued in later years.
p. 221, no. 546.