By Bruno Capacci
Located in Forest Row, East Sussex
'Commedia dell'arte', an Art Deco oil on board painting by Bruno Capacci (1906 - 1996). Signed 'Capacci 1935' to lower left.
Dimensions: H 150cm W 150cm
Date: 1935
Origin: Italian
Bruno Capacci was born in Venice in 1906 but spent his youth in Florence. In 1930 he settled in Paris where he became a member of 'Les Italiens de Paris' togetherwith Chirico, Severino, Magni, Magnelli and Leonor Fini. In the famous cafe 'Le Dome' in Montparnasse Capacci met Belgian artist Suzanne Van Damme, who would become his wife for more than half a century. The couple became friends with surrealist poets Paul Eluard, Paul Colinet, Marcel Lecomte, Louis Scutenaire and Henri Bauchau and with Andre Breton, Marcel Duchamp, Jean Cocteau, Louise de Vilmorin...
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1930s Vintage Bruno Capacci Furniture