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Spring Flowers, Italy
Oil on canvas
30 x 40 inches
Signed lower left: Michele Cascella
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 Provenance:
Gallery Juarez, Los Angeles
Private collection, Los Angeles______
Michele Cascella's Spring Flowers, Italy
features a sprawling field of wildflowers, a scene likely discovered on
the edge of a remote mountain community in an Abruzzi forest. Enchanted
Abruzzi scenes such as this inspired Cascella's emotive Impressionistic
style, which he employed to achieve an overwhelming atmosphere of color
and texture. Spring Flowers, Italy, along with other expressive flower field landscape paintings, are important works of Cascella's artistic career.
 Michele
Cascella was born on September 7th in Ortona a Mare in Chieti, Italy to
artist Basilio Cascella; his brother was artist, Tommaso Cascella.
Cascella was a watercolorist and pastellist, though he also completed a
number of delicate oil paintings, such as the present. A painter of
landscapes, he worked mainly in the Abruzzi, a wild, mountainous region
in Italy east of Rome (pictured left). Known for its lush forests, the Abruzzi was an
ideal setting for Cascella who enjoyed painting flower fields.
Cascella died in Milan in 1989. In 2003, he was featured in the collective exhibition, De Chirico et la peinture italienne de l'entre-deux guerres (De Chirico and Italian Painting of the Interward Period) at the Musee de Lodeve. ________________________________________Museums:
Brussels
London
Milan (Mus. Del Risorgimento, Archivio della Guerra)
Paris (Mus. D'Orsay)
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