Pepper Market In Chivasso Oil On Canvas, 180 X 200 Cm Signed, Dated And Located 1919, Bottom Right

PEPPER MARKET IN CHIVASSO Oil on canvas, 180 x 200 cm Signed, dated and located 1919, lower right We are in 1929, date of the work, and the painter is at the height of his maturity and his artistic vision, immersed in the realization of works absolutely relevant to verismo. His teacher in his youth was Vittorio Cavalieri from whom he learned precisely the mannerisms of verismo associated with expressionist tones, softer and textured. Critics of the time, however, criticized him for being too close to the master's paintings. The work presented here is one of Lupo's finest subjects. Numerous exhibitions of his works have taken place in important galleries in Piedmont, Capri, Venice, Lombardy and Valle d'Aosta. Among many others we remember a very successful exhibition in Livorno in 1933, where he presented many works with market subjects, where light and color made the works very popular with merchants and collectors. Today, this work brings us back to a period of history and to customs that are no longer current, which makes it a fundamental reference for the knowledge of Italian costume, still steeped in the vision of the 19th century. "From the 1920s, the Turin painter produced a wide selection of landscapes and compositions with animals, which were immediately acclaimed by the public and critics. An example is the large canvas depicting the Peperoni market in Chivasso, presented at Lupo's personal exhibition at the Scopinich Gallery in Milan in 1929. " Taken from the General Catalog A. Lupo