FILIPPO MASSARO
(Palermo, 1900 - after 1965)
Still life, around 1925
Pair of oils on panel, 45x55 cm
Signed lower right "Massaro"
Massaro's great pictorial quality emerges in these two works, which are certainly of the twentieth century, but above all Caravaggio-esque.
The reference to compositions of great balance linked to the Lombard master are evident in both works, but even more so in the beautiful representation of fruits on the white tablecloth, where pears and apples seem taken directly from the first known Roman works of Merisi.
As for contemporaries, the stylistic feature certainly suggests an influence of Dudreville, Sciltial, but even more so of Battaini, all painters linked to a hyperrealistic still life style that takes up, as mentioned, the great masters of the seventeenth century, especially Lombard.
