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Composition

Daphne Maugham Casorati

Mantova Museo Urbano Diffuso

Mantova Museo Urbano Diffuso

Daphne Maugham, niece of the famous writer Somerset Maugham, began to study painting in France adhering to the post-impressionist movement. After moving to Italy in 1925, she became a pupil of the great Casorati, who she later married and from whom she had a son, also a painter. If Felice Casorati is a sublime and atypical figure of the Italian artistic world, his wife Daphne articulates her own vast sensitivity in following the strokes of her husband in a more gentle way. Both have the ability to offer a clear view of the world, starting from domestic life yet reaching a subtle metaphysical abyss. The work that we see here represents Daphne’s talent well. A cup of coffee, a box of colors, a plate decorated with gentle colors, and a breakfast bowl with a splendidly blue interior. A roll of large sheets of paper, perhaps archived drawings, perhaps plans of a new creation. The mutual dialogue between the elements of the painting puts every detail in a position both isolated yet capable of reflecting the whole. This is the virtue of the Casorati: to trace universal harmony from an infinitesimal particle, and to represent it as thus.

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  • Title: Composition
  • Creator: Daphne Maugham Casorati

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