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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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Corrado Cagli waxy oil pastel on canvas paper. The work is signed “Cagli” at lower right. Vertical format.<\/p>\n
Condition of work excellent, natural patina and slight craquelure consistent with age; well-preserved intel paper, no obvious restorations.<\/p>\n
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.
\nThe decade of the 1960s is a pivotal year in which Cagli elaborates almost microscopic and metaphysical plastic visions of reality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":125079,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[6376,6415],"product_tag":[5491],"class_list":{"0":"post-125477","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-modern-art","7":"product_cat-modern-paintings","8":"product_tag-portraits","10":"first","11":"instock","12":"taxable","13":"shipping-taxable","14":"purchasable","15":"product-type-simple"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n