Signed Clement CASTELLI, Mountain View, 85 x 67 cm

Signed Clement CASTELLI, Mountain View, 85 x 67 cm
Signed: lower right, Castelli, a listed and established artist.

Oil painting on canvas panel, in very good condition

Subject: Mountain view

Period: early 20th century

Dimensions: with frame 85 x 67 cm - painting 65 x 46 cm

Frame: original carved wooden frame, in very good condition

Biography:
Clement CASTELLI 1870 / 1959
Clément-François Castelli (born January 14, 1870, in Premia, Verbano-Cusio-Ossola province, Italy, and died in Paris on December 12, 1959) was a painter and member of the Society of Mountain Painters. Clément Castelli was born in Premia, in the Piedmont region, to a family originally from the village of Coggia in the municipality of Varzo, also in Piedmont. He moved to Paris in 1880, where he attended school.

He then divided his time between France (Paris and the Alps) and Italy.
In 1925, he co-organized the Italo-Swiss exhibition held in Domodossola, where he also exhibited. He received a vermeil medal from King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy, and the city of Domodossola purchased two of his paintings for its museum.
In 1933, he was made an Officer of the Academy, and then an Officer of Public Instruction in 1948, the same year one of his paintings was acquired by the Louvre Museum. The Louvre also owns another of his landscapes.

He died on December 12, 1959, at the age of 89, in his artist's studio in the Montparnasse district, after being struck by a car in the Place de la République in Paris.

Artistic career: He was drawn to painting from a very young age and went to study at the Free Academy of Rome. He completed his studies with a journey through Italy in the spirit of the Grand Tour. In France, he studied under the painters Jules Adler and Léon Bellemont. He frequently returned to Italy for numerous artistic commissions.
He exhibited at the Salon des Indépendants from 1913 and at the Salon des Artistes Français in 1921. The City of Paris awarded him a silver medal at the Salon Violet exhibition in 1938. He exhibited at the Winter Salon (Musée des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris) in 1942, 1946, 1947, 1949, and 1951.
He was also recognized for his work as a restorer. In 1915, during a stay in his family's ancestral home in Varzo, he noticed and uncovered a 15th-century fresco hidden beneath a thick layer of whitewash in the parish church. He successfully restored the fresco. His knowledge of the Primitives and the Renaissance masters, along with his technical skills, made Castelli a highly sought-after restorer. He also possessed a very reliable technique for relining old works.

Clément Castelli was first and foremost a mountain painter. He primarily painted the Alps: the major massifs of the French Alps (Chamonix Valley, La Meije and the Oisans, etc.), but also the Swiss Alps (numerous paintings depicting the Matterhorn in particular) and the Italian Alps. He depicted mountain landscapes, valley floors, and views of the high mountains, which his mountaineering experience allowed him to frequent. He also painted several pictures of Pyrenean sites, the Cirque de Gavarnie, Lake Gaube, and the Ossau Valley, which he exhibited in Tarbes.

He was a prolific artist who painted a great many pictures. He often painted on small panels, easier to carry in the high mountains, but also on canvas. He painted with a brush, in a fairly classical style; his palette, made up of rather "cool" colors, is characteristic.
A stamp, affixed to the back of his paintings, indicates that, at least for a time, his studio was located at 4, rue du Faubourg-du-Temple in Paris, an address confirmed by the 1942 Winter Salon catalog.

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Painting on display at our gallery in L’Isle-sur-la-Sorgue (France) on weekends.

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