oil on canvas, 95×120 cm
signed lower left UC
This truly singular Allegory dates to the period when Conti, forced into retirement by illness, discovered color. The atmosphere is that of Viareggio, between the homes of Plinio Nomellini and Galileo Chini.
In addition to an iconography influenced by the D'Annunzio-esque taste of magazines like "Leonardo", Conti has inserted a secessionist grotesque into the theme , which gives the work its unprejudiced character: exoticism, desecration and freedom of invention in the re-manipulation of the models, which the imagination re-appropriates, even where, as with the black women on the sides, the scene from Bai Tabarin seems to have been observed from life.
