The Staircase

Felice Casorati’s large work in tempera entitled Mattino (Morning, 1919–20) also seems to reveal its
nature as a group portrait. On the upper floor, the saturated colours of Fernand Léger’s Le Compas (Still Life with Compass, 1926) create unexpected friction with the period style of their setting and highlight the complexity of a collector capable of moving intelligently between different eras and forms of expression