Felice Casorati

Bathers in Capri - Etching by Felice Casorati - 1950s

1950s

Capri-Faraglioni is a splendid print in etching technique engraved by Felice Casorati (1883-1963) in the early 20th Century. The state of preservation of the artwork is good, except...

Capri-Faraglioni is a splendid print in etching technique engraved by Felice Casorati (1883-1963). The state of preservation of the artwork is excelle...

Hand Signed. Edition of 100 prints plus 5 prints in Roman Numerals. From the portfolio: "Dieci Litografie (Numerus, Mensura, Pondus)". Very rare print in perfect conditions. This a...

I rare Edition, by Edizioni ERI-RAI, published in 80 pieces numbered and hand signed by the Artist. Very good conditions. This artwork is shipped from Italy. Under existing legislat...

Fausto Pirandello, Italian (1899 - 1975) - Bathers, Year: circa 1965, Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 8/300, Image Size: 13 x 19 inches, Size: 17.25 x 2...

John Buckland-Wright, "Baigneuses" – Elegant Lithograph Print This stunning lithograph print by acclaimed British artist John Buckland-Wright (1897–1954) showcases his remarkable com...

Felice Casorati (Italian, 1883-1963) The Embrace, 1946 Lithograph Sight: 15 1/2 x 11 1/4 in. Framed: 23 1/3 x 18 2/3 x 1 in. Signed lower left, numbered lower right Felice Casorati (December 4, 1883 – March 1, 1963) was an Italian painter, sculptor, and printmaker. The paintings for which he is most noted include figure compositions, portraits and still lifes, which are often distinguished by unusual perspective effects. Casorati was born in Novara. He showed an early passion for music, but abandoned his study of piano after a serious illness, and became interested in art. To please his mother he studied law at the University of Padua until 1906, but his ambition to be a painter was confirmed in 1907 when a painting of his was shown in the Venice Biennale*. The works he produced in the early years of his career were naturalistic in style, but after 1910 the influence of the symbolists* and particularly of Gustav Klimt turned him toward a more visionary approach. In 1915 he had a solo exhibition at the Rome Secession III, where he showed several paintings and the first of his sculptures in varnished terracotta*. His military service in World War I began that year and lasted until his discharge from the army after the death of his father in 1917. In 1918, "intrigued by the decadent atmosphere of Turin with its sinister views", he settled there with his mother and two sisters. His works of the next decade typify, in their emphasis on geometry and formal clarity, the "return to order" then prevalent in the arts as a reaction to the war. Although many critics found his work cold, cerebral, and academic, Casorati achieved international recognition as a leading figure in this movement. Casorati himself wrote, in 1931: "In taking up, against me, the old polemic of classicism and romanticism, people rail against intellectualized and scholastic order, accuse my art of being insincere, and wilfully academic—in a word, of being neoclassical. ... since my art is born, so to speak, from within, and never has its source in changing "impressions", it is quite natural that ... static forms, and not the fluid images of passion, should be reflected in my works". Briefly arrested in 1923 for his involvement with an anti-Fascist group, Casorati subsequently avoided antagonizing the regime. Beginning in 1923, he opened his studio to the young art students of Turin, and to emerging Italian artists such as Quinto Martini and painters of the Gruppo dei Sei (Group of Six). In 1925, one of his students was Daphne Mabel Maugham, later his wife. One of his later students was the Italian painter Enrico Accatino...

Medium: original lithograph. Catalogue reference: Salomon 27. This lithograph was executed by K X Roussel in homage to Paul Cezanne, printed in 1914 and published in Paris by Bernhei...