Flowers in a Glass and Book
Technical Details
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Title
Flowers in a Glass and Book -
Author
Filippo De Pisis (Filippo Tibertelli) -
Year
1945 -
Dimensions
cm 63.5 x 49 -
Inventory
5075 -
Room
41 A -
Signature
Pisis/45
By the time he executed this work, De Pisis was a mature painter, adept at mixing the various ingredients of his art and enriching them with new suggestions; here he takes up the motifs of cherished assembled household objects (a book, a table, a fan), of the picture within a picture (placed upside down and thus used as a simple pictorial surface), of the floral composition, which, however, is reduced to its purest essence, since the artist has placed in a simple glass a single flowering sprig, poignant in its grace and levity. De Pisis skillfully relies on a few, clear colors, moving ever closer to the range of whites and grays that would constitute his palette in the years of illness and isolation.
