Carlo Socrate
Tobiolo and the Angel
1924

Name: Tobiolo and the Angel
Brand: Carlo Socrate
Price: 23998.46 USD
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About the Item

Artist: Carlo Socrate Medium: oil on canvas Signed and dated lower right 'C. Socrates 1924'. On the back cartouche of Galleria Pesaro Exhibitions: Exhibition of Twenty Italian Artists, Galleria Pesaro, Milan, December 1924 - January 1925, p. 6, no. 50 Carlo Socrate (Mezzana Bigli, 1889 - Rome, 1967) was the son of two actors who took him around the world from an early age. When he was not yet ten years old, he moved with his family to Argentina, remaining there until 1908. The following year, Carlo Socrates won a scholarship that led him to return to Italy. In 1915, Carlo Socrates started working in a studio near Villa Torlonia and soon became friends with Francesco Trombadori (1886-1961). Together they began to frequent the third room of the Caffè Aragno in Via del Corso during the years of the Roman Secession. Here they experience the Roman artistic and cultural climate with fervour and participation, despite Italy's recent entry into the war. 1917 saw him take part in Diaghilev's Russian Ballets, designing the scene for 'Las Meniñas' and working on other sets and costumes. It was on this occasion that Carlo Socrates met Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) who invited him to Paris. Returning to Rome in 1918, he took a studio in Villa Strohl-Fern and participated in the 1918 Casina Valadier Exhibition at the Pincio, a youth art exhibition organised by Marcello Piacentini and Carlo Tridenti. At this point, he became the interpreter of a highly personal classicism, combining Caravaggio-style realism with a smooth and soft material suspension. From this point onwards, his participation in exhibitions became more conspicuous: he took part in several Venetian Biennales, the Florentine Spring Exhibition of 1922 and the Quadrennial and Biennial Exhibitions in Rome. Within the climate of a return to order, he approached 'Valori Plastici', showing himself always akin to 17th-century painting, characterised by a sharp and impeccably realistic rendering of rarefied and suspended atmospheres. Tobiolo and the Angel, a work of 1924, is precisely part of this production, made up of a full and soft classicism, where Caravaggio's volumes are combined with a brilliant and loose modernism.

Creator:

Carlo Socrate

Creation Year:

1924

Dimensions:

Height: 50.4 in (128 cm)Width: 33.47 in (85 cm)Depth: 32.68 in (83 cm)

Medium:

Oil,Canvas

Movement & Style:

Italian School

Period:

1920-1929