Portrait in Black

Made with quick and essential touches, "Portrait in Black" shows the extraordinary talent of portraitist de Pisis, both refined and violent, able to capture in a flash, from a face, the feelings of the subject and transfer them on canvas. A portrait this that can tell with intensity and precision the character, isolating him as in a fragile and tenacious cage, elegant in posture, direct in the look, ambiguous and distant, full of a dramatic fury and almost hopeless, the foretell the last time of de Pisis.