Cesare Peverelli (1922-2000) - Perspective

Cesare Peverelli (1922-2000)

Perspective, 1990

Oil on panel
Format: 59 x 39.5 cm
Signed and dated at the bottom right

Painting in perfect condition.
Mounted on a painted wooden panel.

Provenance: From the collection of the painter Michel Saillour.

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Cesare Peverelli (Milan, 1922 – Paris, 2000)

Cesare Peverelli began his artistic career in 1939 when he attended the Brera Academy of Fine Arts and was a student of Achille Funi and Carlo Carrà. Through Ennio Morlotti, he came into contact with the Corrente group, but preferred Giorgio Morandi's tonalism over the chromatic lighting of neo-cubism. He became associated with the magazine Argine Numero and in 1946 was among the signatories of the Oltre Guernica poster. In 1947, at the Italian art exhibition today, he won the Grosso Award at the Turin Prize, met Cesare Pavese, and began collaborating with the Einaudi publishing house, designing the cover of Jean-Paul Sartre's Nausea (1948).
In search of engaged painting that is not dominated by ideologies, he was one of the founders in 1946 of the magazine Numero Pittura and, with Roberto Crippa, he opened the gallery Peinture, where in 1949 he held a solo exhibition accompanied by a poem by Aimé Césaire translated by Salvatore Quasimodo. The interesting discovery of reading Freud and studying ethnology brought him closer to surrealist poetry. He also experimented with informal art through gestural and multi-material works characterized by a vigorous sign, reminiscent of Georges Mathieu. The adherence to spatialism reflects a rejection of any idea of beautiful painting.
Following the suggestions of Marx Ernst and Victor Brauner, he deepens the exercise of imagination; his works are born with his insects, real characters.
In 1959, the first monograph on the artist was published, signed by Emilio Tadini and Jean Selz, and he participated in the VIII National Art Quadrennial of Rome (1959), as well as in the collective exhibition The New Generation in Italian Art, curated by Francesco Arcangeli, Giulio Carlo Argan, and Marco Valsecchi at the Odyssia Gallery in Rome (1960).
In 1965, he exhibited at the VIII Biennale di San Paolo in Brazil and stayed in New York, where he started the Campo di vetro series followed by works inspired by Cuban nature, visited by the artist in 1966.
In the 1990s, he dedicated himself to drawing and ceramics, and his career continued with numerous awards, honors, and participation in major artistic events.
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