The Museum of Primo Conti Foundation houses sixty-three paintings and one hundred sixty-three drawings by the Florentine artist in a villa located in the hills of Fiesole, above Florence. These works trace his career from 1911, the year of the artistic beginnings with the Self-portrait of surprising beauty and expressive “maturity”, to 1985. Through the works of Primo Conti, the Museum studies the development of twentieth-century artistic events in Italy and Europe. Primo Conti was a prime interpreter of this century characterised by epochal changes. The museum halls display the progression from his early studies on the human figure to his early interest in Fauvist art, the forerunner to the brilliant Futurist period. Conti was able to interpret the most vivid and fruitful moods of Futurism, creating fresh, anti-academic and richly poetic paintings. Afterwards, always based on fervid and constructive dialectics, the painter drove modern art to recover form and expressive techniques.
Ever-youthful and ready to question his expressive results, Conti was an artist who anticipated and lived to the full the artistic and literary spirit of his time. Accordingly the last years of his life were characterized by vivid and lyrical painting works.