Permanent Collection – Fucus on Ottone Rosai. Poet first and foremost

Museo Novecento is pleased to present the exhibition ‘Ottone Rosai. Poet above all else’, scheduled from 7 March to 4 October 2026. The exhibition begins with a comparison between the paintings from the Rosai Bequest and the artist’s works from the Alberto Della Ragione Collection, brought together for the first time in a single exhibition. Divided into two distinct areas, the exhibition allows visitors to explore the figures and places dear to Ottone Rosai (Florence, 1895 – Ivrea, 1957), providing a complex image of the painter and his relationship with his city and the intellectuals of his time. The exhibition is completed by a selection of documents from the Gabinetto Scientifico Letterario G.P. Vieusseux, Archivio Contemporaneo Alessandro Bonsanti. The exhibition also constitutes an important link between the Florentine civic collections and the figure of Georg Baselitz, who will soon be the subject of a major exhibition at the Museo Novecento. Baselitz is in fact a great admirer of Ottone Rosai, whose works he discovered during his first stay in Florence in 1965.