LUIGI CORBELLINI
(1901 – 1968)
“New York”
Oil Painting on canvas. 18 ins x 22 ins. Signed.
(In original French carved
wood frame) IMAGE
“Gladioli in a Glass Vase”
Oil Painting on Canvas.
31 ˝”x 21”. Signed IMAGE
Luigi Corbellini was born in Piacenza (Italy) on 13th August 1901. He attended the Academies Brera
in Turino and Albertina in Milano. He left Italy at the age of 19 in order
to spend three years with Desclee de Brouwer in Bruges, as Head of the
Lithographic Shop. At 22 he moved
permanently to Paris and began his career in Montmartre. He was famous by the age
of 28 and built an artist workshop at 6 Villa Santos Dumont in Montparnasse. He exhibited regularly at the Durand-Ruel’s Gallery.
After the second World War, he decided to
exhibit in the United States. Durand-Ruel
referred him to the Victor Hammers Gallery, its New York counterpart. He exhibited every other year at both
galleries and he also exhibited at other galleries in Paris, Los Angeles and San Fransico. He became noted in South America and exhibited in major
cities such as Caracus in Venezuela and Rio de Janeiro in Brazil. In order to bring diversity to his subject,
he spent a year in various countries, including Mexico, Vietnam, Italy (Capri) and Sweden. He was also well known as a childrens’ painter through the use of a very colourful oil
palette, which he acquired in the United States. He was also noted for his watercolours. Work
by Corbellini is in the National Modern Art Museum, the Modern Art Museum of
Paris, the Museum of Grenoble, the Modern Art Museum of
Ricci Oddi in Plaisance (Italy), the Evanston Museum of
Arts (U.S.A.) and the Petit Palais of Geneve (Switzerland).
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