From the studio of Moses Levy to the Enrico Pea collection – etchings, charcoals, drawings

From 17 February to 11 March, a corpus of work by Moses Levy, from Enrico Pea’s collection, will be on show in Pietrasanta: engravings, drawings and charcoals all dated prior to 1916, the year when the entire contents of Moses Levy’s studio in Rigoli (PI) were bought by Luigi Salvatori and Enrico Pea. Also on show works by Mino Maccari, Arturo Dazzi, Ettore Di Giorgio and Antony De Witt.
With the support of the Banca della Versilia, Lunigiana e Garfagnana, the Town Council Department for the Arts showcases this particular group of works from the Pea collection at the Putti and Capitolo rooms of the cloister of the Church of St Agostino. The exhibition will be accompanied by catalogue with contributions from various academics, published by Bandecchi e Vivaldi.
The event is organised by Antonella Serafini and Valentina Fogher.

The exhibition opens on Friday 17 February at 4.30 pm with a meeting attended by the mayor of Pietrasanta Domenico Lombardi, the mayor Sarzana Massimo Caleo, the president of the Banca della Versilia, Lunigiana e Garfagnana Umberto Guidugli, Umberto Sereni, Antonella Serafini, Enrico Baldi, Giuliano Rebechi and Manlio Cancogni.
Free admission.

Moses Levy
The painter and engraver Moses Levy (born in Tunisia, 1885 – died in Viareggio, 1968) came to Italy at a very early age. He first stayed in Florence, then Lucca, where he met Lorenzo Viani, and then Florence again, where he studied at the Fine Arts Academy. In 1907 he took part in the VII Biennial Exhibition of Modern Art in Venice with a wash drawing which earned him his first recognition. From then on he participated in numerous exhibitions in Italy and his homeland Tunisia, with which he remained in contact and where, from the nineteen-thirties, he became known as “maestro” of new generation artists. In 1935 he took part in the Biennial Exhibition of Modern Art in Venice and the 2nd Quadrennial Exhibition of Modern Art in Rome and in the forties and fifties he was the protagonist of many exhibitions not just in Italy and Tunisia, but also in France, Denmark and Sweden. In the sixties he settled permanently in Viareggio.