Apology Letter

Autograph Letter dated signed  by Felice Casorati to Libero de Libero. On letterhead "Via Mazzini, 52, Torino".   October 10th 1937.  Two  pages. In Italian. Excellent conditions, with usual medial folds.

Interesting and apology letter by the Italian artist due to his lack at the exhibition at the Cometa Gallery branch in New York, organized by the poet Libero de Libero and the Countess Anna Laetitia Pecci Blunt. Excited by the invitation but unsatisfied of his last artworks, he declines the invitation. 

Felice Casorati  (Novara, 1883 – Torino, 1963)

Hermetic painter, silent and solitary person, Felice Casorati was one of the most appreciated member of Magic Realism , a movement succeed during the AfterWar like the expression of a need of a restoring order, and of a wish to end avant-garde and finally to repossess the classical antiquity and spirit.

He deserved some rewards for his merits: at the end of 30’s he won the price of Painting of Biennal of Venice, the Carnegie Price in Pittsburg in 1937, the “ Grand Prix” in Paris in 1938, and other one in Saint Francisco in 1939 and a price for painting at the Biennale of Venice in 1942.

About his intentions in painting he said:

“I would be able to proclaim the sweetness of fixing on canvas the aestatic and motionless spirits, the motionless and silent things, the long sight, the deep  and  limpid thoughts, the joys of life not of giddiness, the painfull life and not the trouble”.

Libero de Libero  (Fondi, 1903 - Rome, 1981)

The Italian poet, art critic and storyteller moved to Rome in 1927 and came into contact with the artistic and literary fervor of those years. The following year, with Luigi Diemoz he founded the literary magazine  Interplanetario , which had Corrado Alvaro, Massimo Bontempelli and Alberto Moravia among its collaborators. In those same years (from 1928 to 1934) the group of painters of the  Roman School  was formed in the studio of Mario Mafai. De Libero followed these artists assiduously and commented on their works with the first essays on Mafai and Scipione. He often edited the catalogs of the La Cometa Gallery, founded with the Countess Pecci-Blunt in 1935.