In the history of art, Felice Casorati is one of the names that keeps being returned to.
The record lists Felice Casorati as Italian painter (1883-1963).
Felice Casorati was born at Novara in 1883. His recorded nationality is Italy. He trained at University of Padua.
Around the turn of the twentieth century the movements arrived in quick succession, each defining itself against the last.
He worked as painter, designer and graphic artist.
Looking is a skill, and the artists who last are those who taught their audience how to do it.
That the work was made in Italy shaped it: artistic traditions, academies and the galleries that decide what is seen have never been evenly distributed.
Felice Casorati died in 1963, aged 80. The work remains, hanging in collections that outlived both the artist and the market that first priced it.
