Salvatore Cippone (1942) - Nudo a letto

Cippone is the pseudonym used by the Salento-born artist, who was born in the province of Lecce in 1942. Self-taught, he attended private art studios and began exhibiting his works during the years of Italy’s 1968 youth protests. He favors oil on canvas and nude subjects. He has a Neo-Impressionist style, which he also uses to create frescoes for churches and basilicas in southern Italy. He exhibits in Italian galleries and has won numerous awards.

The work shown in the image is a figurative oil painting on canvas, created in 1978. The signature is in the upper right. The composition depicts a profile lost in sleep. The canvas measures 30 x 40 cm and is surrounded by a classic wooden frame measuring 44 x 54 cm. It will be shipped with insured transport due to the delicacy of the glass. Provenance: purchased directly from the artist. No certificate of authenticity is included.

In Cippone’s brushwork, one senses the warm breath of the medium, a sensual movement that becomes light and surrender. The female figure, captured in a moment of intimacy, dissolves into the folds of the sheet like a receding wave. The colors vibrate in shades of pink and blue, evoking skin and sky, flesh and dream.
The free, sensual brushwork transforms the body into a landscape, into a movement of the soul.
There is no voyeurism, but contemplation: the painting becomes a caress, a tactile memory.
The artist from Salento conveys the Mediterranean strength of the body, its light and its shadow.
Every curve is a rhythm, every nuance a breath made into paint.
Though immersed in silence, the figure seems to vibrate with life and desire.
In this tension between eros and poetry, Cippone engages in an imagined dialogue with Lucian Freud and Bonnard.
His canvas is a song to the fragility and power of the human body, suspended between dream and reality.