Contemporary Painting M. Cortiello 1971 Genre Scene Oil on Canvas - The Rise of Pulcinella 1971

Features

Artist:  Mario Cortiello (1907-1982)

Artwork title:  L'ascesa di Pulcinella

Age:  20th Century / 1901 - 2000

Subject:  Genre Scenes

Artistic technique:  Painting

Technical specification:  Oil on Canvas

Description : L'ascesa di Pulcinella

Oil painting on canvas. Signed and dated lower right. Further signature, title and handwritten declaration of authenticity on the back. Mario Cortiello, a Neapolitan painter who was a pupil of Gennaro Villani and later a friend and collaborator of Umberto Lilloni, participated with his own personal style in the renewal of Neapolitan painting, without straying from tradition. Endowed with fertile invention and remarkable representative capacity, he left behind a rich and varied production. Landscape or urban views are recurring in his production, populated by numerous figures, often, in the Neapolitan setting, by Pulcinella, depicted floating on dreamlike backgrounds, so much so that he is defined as the Neapolitan Chagall. This is exactly the subject of the painting proposed here: some Pulcinellas climb a ladder leaning into thin air, one of them floats in the air, and in the meantime they play with some naked women, surrounded by colored circles, balloons, also floating around . The Chagallian reference is evident in these male and female figures, although the mask of Pulcinella refers specifically to the Neapolitan area. The painting is presented in a frame.

Product Condition:
Product in good condition, shows small signs of wear. We try to present the real state as fully as possible with photos. If some details are not clear from the photos, what is reported in the description will prevail.

Frame Size (cm):
Height: 72
Width: 82
Depth: 5

Artwork dimensions (cm):
Height: 50
Width: 60