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Mario Borgiotti (Livorno, 22 August 1906 – Florence, 19 December 1977) was an Italian painter and art collector. He studied violin and met Ulvi Liegi, Gino Romiti, Umberto Vittorini and the artists of the Labronico Group starting in 1921. Read the full biography

Mario Borgiotti Biography

Mario Borgiotti (Livorno, 22 August 1906 – Florence, 19 December 1977) was an Italian painter and art collector. He studied violin and met Ulvi Liegi, Gino Romiti, Umberto Vittorini and the artists of the Labronico Group starting in 1921. He dedicated himself in particular to trading and collecting works of art, so much so that in 1925 he organized an exhibition of contemporary painting in Pisa with the presence of a large group of painters from Labro and in 1927 an exhibition of nineteenth-century works and of Livorno painting. In 1928 he promoted the exhibition-sale of Macchiaiole works in Lucca at the Bottega d'Arte Calligani, while in 1930 he organized another collective exhibition of Labronian painters and nineteenth-century Italian artists in Viareggio. Also in the same year he began his apprenticeship as a painter with the master Giovanni March and in 1934 his first collective exhibition at the VII Provincial Exhibition of Livorno. His activity as a portraitist was intense and he saw Pietro Mascagni, Giovanni Bartolena, Ulvi Liegi and Piero Vaccari immortalized in his canvases. In 1938 he moved to Florence and organized an exhibition of nineteenth-century paintings at the Galleria Firenze. In 1946 he held a solo exhibition at the Livorno Art Gallery. He was part of the Labronico Group, of which he was president for over a decade, while in 1953 he was the founder, together with Nedo Luschi and Renzo Casali, of the Premio Rotonda, an extemporaneous painting prize at the Rotonda of Ardenza[1]. In 1955 he moved to Milan and continued his artistic activity in the studio of the Sagrati Scotti palace in via Manzoni. In Livorno he organized the Spalletta Prize in 1961, together with Renato Natali, Bruno Miniati and Aldo Santini. In 1963 he was among the curators of an exhibition of Macchiaioli artists at the "Il Grattacielo" Art Center in Livorno; the exhibition was taken to Montecatini Terme and from there to the United States.