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SILVER Seller in Milano, Italy
Ettore Cosomati (Naples 1873 - Milan 1960) Italian painter and engraver. Orphaned by both parents, he moved to Naples to live with his uncle Filippo Cosomati. He studied mathematics and accountancy, then from 1894 started travelling around Europe. In Paris he became interested in music, in Germany in 1897 he met the etcher Bernhard Mannfeld (Dresden 1848 - Frankfurt am Main 1925) who became his teacher. Tempera and oil paintings date back to the 1890s, his first solo exhibition in Milan dates back to 1923 and in this same year he participated in the 2nd Rome Biennale. He contributed to magazines and newspapers but never gave up engraving, in 1935, the Galleria Pesaro in Milan published a folder illustrating Italy through his woodcut interpretations. During the First World War, many of his plates were confiscated and cast for war purposes. Using a perspective from above that crushes the verticality of the Monument, the author depicts part of the external apse and the left side of the Cathedral as seen from the current Corso Vittorio Emanuele II. The close-up viewpoint enhances the mass of the architecture that almost seems to come out of the outline. The use of paper as a chromatic element is interesting. The dimensional anomaly of the spires and the disproportion with the surrounding buildings infuses the composition with a sense of fairytale. Print run of 190 copies. On the lower left is written: n 39/190 = II = The Cathedral; on the right the author's signature. The n II could indicate a second print run or more probably a second plate dedicated to the Duomo. Excellent impression. Very good state of preservation. Bibliography: A. Jelardi, Ettore Cosomati. Un artista di fama europea da San Marco dei Cavoti a Parigi, Francoforte, Zurigo, Londra e Milano, Realtà Sannita, 2019.
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