Michele Cascella (Italian, 1892-1989)
Michele Cascella (Italian, 1892-1989)

View of Portofino

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Michele Cascella (Italian, 1892-1989)
View of Portofino
signed, inscribed and dated 'Michele Cascella Portofino '38' (lower right)
watercolour and gouache on paper
43 3/8 x 29 5/8 in. (110 x 75 cm.)
来源
Commissioned from the artist by Signore & Signora Mario & Fosca Crespi, Milan, friends of the artist, and thence by descent to the present owner.

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Michele Cascella's paintings can be described in two words: chromatism and light.
Growing up in Abruzzo, surrounded by the region's gentle landscape, highly influenced his growth as an artist. In 1908 he was in Paris exhibiting at the Galerie Drout, and while there the direct encounter with of post-impressionists works, in particular Sisley's brightness and use of colour, made a long-lasting impact on Cascella. Though he travelled extensively and lived in Argentina and America, one of his favourite locations was the Liguria region, especially the bay of the village of Portofino. Moving away from his contemporary Cubists and Futurists, Cascella recurrently depicts the bay in an accurate and realistic way, always trying to capture on the canvas the joy of this lively, colourful and full of atmosphere part of the world.