Domenico Cantatore (ruvo Di Puglia 1906 - Paris 1998) - Odalisque (homage To Delacroix).

Domenico Cantatore (Ruvo di Puglia 1906 - Paris 1998) - Odalisque (Homage to Delacroix).

35 x 32 cm (without frame) - 66 x 64 cm (with frame).

Oil on panel, in gilt wood frame.

Signed lower left: «da DELACROIX CANTATORE».

Autograph inscription on the reverse: «omaggio a Delacroix».

Domenico Cantatore ranks among the leading figures of twentieth-century Italian painting. Trained in Bari and Milan, he eventually settled in Paris, where his figurative research engaged with the great French tradition and with European avant-garde movements. His painting, consistently devoted to an intense, chromatically rich figuration, places him among the postwar Italian masters active on the international scene.
The present work is a declared reinterpretation of a Delacroixian subject (as attested by the autograph inscription on the reverse), in which Cantatore translates the theme of the oriental odalisque into his own personal language: broad, vigorous brushwork, emphatic black outlines, and a palette dominated by turquoises, greens, and flesh-toned pinks. The female figure, seated cross-legged in an undefined interior, is rendered with a formal synthesis close to the Fauvist lesson, filtered through the plastic sensibility characteristic of this Apulian master.

Condition report: Good state of conservation of the pictorial surface.

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