Marco Rosci - Cassinari - 1998

This is the precious General Catalogue of the paintings by Bruno Cassinari, the essential and definitive work for study, authentication, and cataloging of this great master of Italian twentieth century art. Having the complete work split into two volumes is a great advantage, because in the collectors’ market single volumes lose much of their appeal.
Exact title: Cassinari. General Catalogue of the Paintings. Volume I and Volume II.
Artist treated: Bruno Cassinari (1912–1992).
Painter and sculptor from Piacenza, he was one of the absolute protagonists of the artistic movement "Corrente" (along with Guttuso, Birolli and Vedova). He managed to fuse in a unique way Picasso's Cubism with Expressionism and the bright colors of the Mediterranean.
Curator: Marco Rosci, one of the most respected historians and critics of modern art in Italy.
Publisher: Electa, Milan-based publishing house, the leading authority in art books and in catalog raisonnés.
Year of publication: 1998.
Physical structure: Two hefty large-format volumes, bound in gray editorial cloth with titles printed on the spine and equipped with a gray matte protective dust jacket featuring an artwork applied to the center.
Volume I: Contains the first part of the author's artistic life, the introductory essays written by the critics, and the entries for the early works up to about page 340.
Volume II: Resumes the numbering from the next sequence and extends to the end of the catalogue at page 688.