Work by Davide Benati - Night with Lanterns 1990

Features

Artist:  Davide Benati (1949)

Artwork title:  Notturno con lanterne

Age:  Contemporary

Subject:  Abstract Composition

Artistic technique:  Painting

Technical specification:  Mixed Technique

Description : Notturno con lanterne

Mixed media (oil, watercolors, papier-mâché on canvas). Signature, date, title and technique on the back of the smaller panel. These are two canvases to be composed side by side (according to the indications given by the same author on the reverse), playing on the two colors of cream and blue, with the application of papier-mâché elements on the larger. Always linked to the refined and complex watercolor technique, Davide Benati gives life to a universe of fluctuating, transitory and fleeting forms, expressed through a cultured painting, made up of suggestions and literary and personal memories; his figures draw on the world of nature, but "the flowers and leaves become a pure pictorial organism, a microcosm inhabited by delicate and wonderful chromatic games, by broad tonal layers, by barely shadowed spatialities, in which the viewer's gaze is invited to enter to get lost in the impalpable enchantment of the surface” (F. Poli). The work comes from an important historical private collection in Milan.

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.

Artwork dimensions (cm):
Height: 140
Width: 170
Depth: 2