Sleeping Woman

Sleeping Woman is an original modern artwork realized by Domenico Cantatore in the mid-20th Century.

Watercolor drawing of brown paper.

Stains on paper.

Hand signed on the lower margin.

Includes frame.

Domenico Cantatore (Ruvo di Puglia, 1906 - Paris, 1998),He moved to Milan in 1924, joined the Corrente art group and in 1929 held his First Personal Exhibition at the Galleria Milano. In 1932, he moved to Paris, where he learned about Impressionist painting and the art of Picasso and the Fauves. He dedicated to engraving with the drypoint technique and in 1934 he exhibited his works at the Galleria Il Milione. In the following years, he took part in the Venice Biennial, the Bergamo Award and the Rome Quadrennial. In 1950, he obtained the chair of Painting, at the Faculty of Fine Arts of Brera.

The first period of his artistic production, up to 1948, deals with subjects of an intimate nature, influenced by the French tradition, and later realizes works related to realism and expressionism, with social accents. Famous is the series of Odalisques, but also the landscapes and the figures of poor people of the south Italy.

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