Aurelio Capsoni (1891-1945) - Natura morta con rose e libri

Aurelio Capsoni (Milan, 1891 – 1945)

The Milanese painter and sculptor Aurelio Capsoni trained at the prestigious Brera Academy of Fine Arts under the expert guidance of masters such as Enrico Butti and Achille Alberti. Known primarily to critics and the art market for his imposing sculptural output of monumental and funerary character, still admired inside Milan's Monumental Cemetery, Capsoni also pursued a refined easel painting practice. His canvas production, intensified in the 1930s during the climate of the Return to Order, stands out for solid volumetric research and for a formal sensibility that bears the stamp of his sculptor’s background, translating the three-dimensionality of matter through dense, concrete color fields with vigorous Twentieth-Century synthesis.

Still life with roses and books.

This splendid and vigorous still life dated 1935 represents a rare and emblematic testimony of Aurelio Capsoni’s mature painting production. The work depicts a rich bouquet of roses in warm tones of cadmium yellow and orange, placed inside a spherical transparent glass vase resting on a dark surface beside two bound volumes. The composition is characterized by a rich, bold, and materially dense painting technique, where the substantial brushwork models the petals of the flowers almost as if they were bas-reliefs carved into the canvas. The strong chiaroscuro contrast, produced by the deep, uniform brown background, enhances the internal luminosity of the blossoms and the virtuosic transparency of the glass, while the geometric insertion of the books in the foreground, among which the blue note of the lower volume stands out, gives diagonal depth and perfect chromatic balance to the whole scene. The autograph signature and the original dating by the author appear at the lower right, presenting the work as of notable collecting interest for the study of the Lombard figurative panorama between the wars.

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