oil on canvas, 80×64 cm
signed and dated lower left Primo Conti 1919
A Spanish and picaresque component appears in The Jester Innkeeper, a work of capital importance in Conti's career, which reinterprets both the Cubist still life and the Futurist simultaneity in light of the great painting of the past.
Corrado Pavolini, who mentioned the painting in his 1919 monograph on Primo Conti, made it the cornerstone of the “technical grotesque” in which his friend excelled, drawing inspiration from Laforgue's prose made of heterogeneous plastic materials.
