Francesco Carini (1883-1959) - Il roseto a Caspoggio

Engaging work by the painter Francesco Carini (Castelnuovo Bocca d'Adda, 1883 – Caspoggio, 1959), painted in oil on panel and in good condition.
The work measures 45x50 cm.
The very beautiful frame is original and from the period.
Signed and dated 1931.
Born in Sondrio in 1883, Francesco Carini was a student in Milan of the painter, decorator, and caricaturist Giuseppe Palanti (1881-1926). He taught from 1907 at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts and from 1923 at the School of Decoration in Brera.
A regular visitor to Valmalenco during holidays, he finally settles permanently in Caspoggio, redesigning an old house he owns and personally designing and creating the furniture and garden fountain.
During the 1940s, he held several solo exhibitions in Milan: at Galleria Balzani in 1943, at Galleria Internazionale in 1949, and at Galleria Gavioli, also in 1949.
Some of his works are now housed at the Galleria d’Arte moderna in Milan and the Museo Valtellinese di Storia e Arte in Sondrio, but for the most part, his works are scattered across various private collections in Valtellina.
Carini's work — still little known and studied despite its undeniable importance for landscape painting within the provincial and regional context — represents an attempt to develop the tradition of Lombard naturalist realism from the second half of the nineteenth century. Its founding figure is Filippo Carcano, with its most notable exponents including Leonardo Bazzaro, Eugenio Gignous, Francesco Gola, Enrico Filippini, and Uberto Dell’Orto.
In a certain tradition, Carini is a robust epigone from the first half of the 20th century in Valtellina, as secluded and solitary as it is. It is the rural Valmalenco, and above all the natural and human environment of Caspoggio, that emerges in his paintings as the landscape subject of choice.
Based on a rather academic matrix in its compositional structure, Carini develops a chromatic approach aimed at rendering the natural data with a brushstroke that begins compact and with large, flat areas of color, then increasingly more dynamic and frayed, with dense and textured impastos, particularly effective and expressive in rural vistas.
Provenance: private collection, Milan, Italy
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