Sironi Collection, Sassari

The Collection is located in the Palazzo del Banco di Sardegna and is placed in the hall where the Board of Directors holds its meetings. The collection consists of forty-two works by Mario Sironi (Sassari 1885 – Milan 1961), one of the great protagonists of 20th-century Italian art. Trained in Rome with Balla, Boccioni, and Severini, he was a representative of Futurism and a fervent fascist. Sironi was a painter of solitude, among gloomy landscapes, suburbs, and industrial buildings, men and women depicted with the rigidity of stone. The exhibited works, almost all donated by his partner and universal heir Mimì Costa to Banco di Sardegna, many of which are unpublished, include oils, temperas, mixed media, drawings, and sculptures created between 1926 and 1958. Standing out is the large painting Allegory of Work, a preparatory study for the fresco, which was highly successful, made in 1933 for the 5th Milan Triennial.