Pescara on the River

Pescara on the river is an artwork realized in 1979, by the Italian Artist Michele Cascella.   

Colored lithograph on paper of the Portfolio "Landscape", 1979, with six original lithograph and the poems of Franco Simongini titled "Twenty Landscapes 1953-1960" Hand-signed on the lower right in pencil and numbered edition of 59/125 ex. Lower right blind stamp of the Printer Graphis Art, Livorno. 

The state of preservation of the artwork is very good.   

Michele Cascella (Ortona, 7 September 1892 - Milan, 31 August 1989) was an Italian twilight painter and landscape painter. Over the course of his long artistic life which spanned almost eight decades of intense activity, Cascella has been able to maintain a unique, unmistakable style which is practically immune to the contamination of the pictorial currents and avant-gardes of the twentieth century. His works, including canvases, panels, pastels and drawings, are exhibited in numerous Italian and international museums, including the Victoria and Albert Museum[1] in London, the Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume in Paris, the National Museum of History and Art in Luxembourg, the Musée d'Art Moderne in Brussels and the De Saisset Art Gallery of the University of Santa Clara in California, where a large permanent collection of works is exhibited. The graphic work is also copious, including lithographs, chromolithographs, serigraphs and etchings, techniques that he used since he was a boy and thanks to which he got to know - especially at the end of the 20th century - and still maintains a considerable reputation among the general public. The distinctive features of the painter reconcile the superb compositional ability, to which are added the great mastery of drawing and the vibrant colours, of which the floral compositions are exemplary, in which Cascella reaches very high expressive peaks, as are the views, where he reaches results of incomparable freshness, luminosity and atmosphere.