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 Italian art of the twentieth century. He was trained in Rome with Balla, Boccioni, and Severini, was a representative of futurism and a fervent fascist. Sironi was a painter of solitude, among dark landscapes, suburbs, and industrial buildings, men and women represented in the rigidity of stone. The exhibited works, almost all donated by his partner and universal heir Mimì Costa to the Banco di Sardegna, many of which are unpublished, consist of oils, temperas, mixed techniques, drawings, and sculptures created between 1926 and 1958. Standing out is the large painting Allegory of Work, a preparatory study for the fresco created, with great success, in 1933 for the V Triennale di Milano.