Corrado Cagli Portrait of Profile Anonymous Work for Sale
  • Corrado Cagli Portrait of Profile Anonymous Work for Sale

Corrado Cagli work

Oil pastel on velour papier applied on canvas, signed

€6.800,00

Corrado Cagli waxy oil pastel on canvas paper. The work is signed “Cagli” at lower right. Vertical format.

Condition of work excellent, natural patina and slight craquelure consistent with age; well-preserved intel paper, no obvious restorations.

This profile portrait, with its dotted texture fragmenting the face into a mosaic of grays, yellows, and shadows on a deep red background, symbolizes the complexity of human identity in postwar chaos. Influenced by Cagli’s experiences, the work evokes themes of disintegration and reconstruction: the anonymous profile (perhaps an idealized self-portrait or totemic archetype) represents fragmented memory, the resilience of the self in the face of historical trauma, and a return to classical Roman roots filtered through modern abstractionism.
The decade of the 1960s is a pivotal year in which Cagli elaborates almost microscopic and metaphysical plastic visions of reality.

Materials: Canvas
Period:  1950s–1960s
Creator: Corrado Cagli (Ancona, 1910 - Roma, 1976)
Conditions: Very good
Height: 28,34 inch
Length: 18,89 inch
Technique: Wax pastel
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Description

The wax oil pastel technique on inlaid paper involves the application of wax and oil pastels to high-quality paper (often papier velour), which is then inlaid on a rigid backing.

Cagli used this method to create textural and luminous effects, with dotted layering evoking mosaics or etchings, allowing smooth transitions between colors and a unique tactile rendering. A frequent technique in his works of the 1950s-60s, it combined the spontaneity of pastel with the durability of oil.

To buy a work by Corrado Cagli is to invest in a piece of modern Italian art history. Cagli’s work combines wild instinctiveness with a rational Western culture, making him an unmistakable artist. His works are at once a lyrical message, a psychoanalytic test and an ethnographic document, offering a depth that few artists can achieve.

Corrado Cagli (Ancona, 1910 – Rome, 1976) was an Italian painter of Jewish descent, a key figure of the Roman School in the 1930s, influenced by Futurism, Cubism and Metaphysics.

Technical data sheet

Materials: Canvas
Period:  1950s–1960s
Creator: Corrado Cagli (Ancona, 1910 - Roma, 1976)
Conditions: Very good
Height: 28,34 inch
Length: 18,89 inch
Technique: Wax pastel

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