PIASA is organizing a sale of modern and contemporary art on Wednesday, December 7th.
Filippo de Pisis was born in Ferrara in 1896 under the name Luigi Filippo Tibertelli. In the early 1920s, the artist committed to his career as a painter upon joining the De Chirico brothers' Metaphysical Movement. He would go on to actively participate in the Parisian art scene until the late 1930s.
Filippo De Pisis (1896-1956)
Natura morta con galletto e ocarina, 1948
Estimate: 60000 / 80000 €
The work "Natura morta con galletto e ocarina (1948)" is one of the few paintings made by Filippo De Pisis during his time in Venice (1943-1948), during which he would alternate extraordinary views of the lagoon city with still lifes and portraits of great intensity. Consisting of rapid and spontaneous touches of color, this semi-fantasy still life is composed of objects placed randomly on the table, and evokes feelings of melancholy and solitude. The speed of the brushstrokes and the range of colors in the same tone send the spectator back into a suspended reality characterized by emotional tension.
The rare paintings from the artist's Venetian period, like the one here, are marked with the letters "S.B.", which refer to De Pisis' studio in San Barnaba at the time. The year 1948 marks the consecration of the painter at the Venice Biennale, where a personal room is reserved for the exhibition of some thirty works that assemble the last twenty years of his career.
