Portrait of Igor Stravinsky

At the origin of the “solidification” of Marini's imagination, even before 1930, lie precisely some portraits. It is very rare to find, in the whole history of art, examples that can equal the merciless firmness of this investigation, which does not aim at a merely psychological rendering, but always a poetic one: “there is no human face in which this poetry is not as if enclosed, nestled, solidified...”.