Verzocchi Collection Section Born out of a passion for art by Giuseppe Verzocchi (Forlì 1887 – Milan 1970), a refractory brick entrepreneur from Forlì, the collection brings together some seventy important paintings by Italian artists from different generations and artistic movements, united by a single theme: work. The collection’s origins date back to the immediate postwar period, when Verzocchi commissioned the most celebrated artists of the time to create paintings celebrating the value of work, subject to strict constraints regarding dimensions (90 x 70 cm) and the inclusion of the “brick” bearing the initials “ V&D”, the identifier for his company derived from the names of the two partners, Giuseppe Verzocchi and Ottavio Vittorio De Romano. The exhibition of the paintings is accompanied by portraits commissioned by the patron from the individual artists and archival documentation. Presented to the public by the entrepreneur in 1950 in Venice under the title Work in Contemporary Italian Painting, the collection was donated to the City of Forlì on May 1, 1961, and became part of the Civic Collections. VERZOCCHI Collection. Works by: Amerigo Bartoli Natinguerra Luigi Bartolini Afro Basaldella Aldo Bergamini Ugo Bernasconi Renato Birolli Marcello Boccacci Leonardo Borgese Pompeo Borra Giovanni Brancaccio Gastone Breddo Anselmo Bucci Corrado Cagli Massimo Campigli Domenico Cantatore Giuseppe Capogrossi Felice Carena Aldo Carpi Carlo Carrà Felice Casorati Bruno Cassinari Primo Conti Antonio Corpora Giorgio de Chirico Raffaele De Grada Filippo De Pisis Francesco De Rocchi Fortunato Depero Antonio Donghi Cesare Fratino Achille Funi Bepi Galletti Luciano Gaspari Romano Gazzera Virgilio Guidi Renato Guttuso Mino Maccari Mario Mafai Concetto Maugeri Francesco Menzio Giuseppe Migneco Cesare Monti Enzo Morelli Mattia Moreni Ennio Morlotti Marco Novati Giuseppe Novello Cipriano Efisio Oppo Carlo Parmeggiani Fausto Pirandello Armando Pizzinato Enrico Prampolini Ottone Rosai Bruno Saetti Alberto Salietti Aldo Salvadori Giuseppe Santomaso Aligi Sassu Gino Severini Mario Sironi Ardengo Soffici Orfeo Tamburi Fiorenzo Tomea Arturo Tosi Giulio Turcato Gianni Vagnetti Italo Valenti Emilio Vedova Mario Vellani Marchi Umberto Vittorini
