Studio: international art (89.1925)

NAPLES

VINCENZO IROLLI

NAPLES.—Vincenzo Irolli has his home
in Naples, but his work is well known
through Italy. At the first Milan Inter-
national Exhibition of Water Colour Art in
1923 he was well represented, and so much
appreciated that I believe I am correct in
stating that all his five works there exhi-
bited—of which 77 Corriere dei Piccoli was
one of the best—were sold within ten
days of the opening. These water-colours
were, in fact, very remarkable, having a
depth and luminosity and richness of
colour which no other painting in the
exhibition came near ; and I am convinced
that Irolli would only need to be better
known in this country to find his public.
He is a good figure draughtsman, but does
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not confine himself to " acquerello." In
the last Venice Biennial his girl holding a
skein of wool with arms outstretched—II
Bandolo—attracted considerable attention ;
but I am preferring to give here among my
illustrations two of his quite recent works,
a brilliant still life, which gives some idea
of this artist's rich colouring, and the
strongly drawn Falstaff, both of these oil
works, a a a a a a
In these oil paintings of Irolli, with their
extraordinary vivacity, their Southern char-
acter and colour, I feel myself something
of the influence of another painter from
South Italy, that great living master,
Antonio Mancini; and though the artist
himself, when we were together in Venice,