Bidspirit auction | Duilio Cambellotti

Duilio Cambellotti - Duilio Cambellotti - La siepe di smeraldo - Coscine di pollo, 1920. pencil and tempera on cardboard 11,5 x 11,5 cm Original illustration made by Cambellotti for ”The Emerald Hedge” by Ettore Cozzani, published on page 197 by Bemporad in 1920. Cambellotti initially approached Art Nouveau, embracing its original and pioneering aspects expressed by the ideas of William Morris, before moving on to Futurism. Like Morris, he saw art as having a social, global, moralistic, and pedagogical purpose, aimed at making it accessible to all, and like the English artist, he became a shining example of the artist-craftsman par excellence. Considered one of the most brilliant examples of Art Nouveau in Italy, Cambellotti was a painter, sculptor, ceramist, set designer, designer, architect, and printmaker, but it was perhaps in illustration that all the artistic expressions he explored throughout his career converged. Traces of tape in the margins. Signed. Dimensions 11,5 x 11,5 cm