Carlo Cherubini

1897-1978

At the age of seventeen Cherubini’s paintings were exhibited in Venice, Italy at La Biennale di Venezia where he returned to exhibit in the years 1922-24-26.

In 1923, after a commission for decorating a dining room in the Latin Quarter in Paris, he traveled to New York to paint works at Lido Club of Long Island, New York.

A year later in 1924 he returned in Venice where he continued to paint and exhibit.

In 1926 he decorated a room at famous Antico Martini restaurant in Venice, Italy.

He moved to Paris in the late 1920s where he exhibited at the Salon des Artistes Français in 1929, he exhibited a portrait of the writer and actor Georges de la Fouchardiére.

In Paris he painted important works for the decorations for the Lido de Paris Cabaret.

At the exhibition of French artists in Paris in 1930 he received, "Mention of honour". Two years later he obtained the silver medal.

Later he returned to Italy on the eve of World War II.

Mario Stefani wrote: "in him tradition and modernity merge by being equivalent, without destroying each other and in the most successful moments he is the indefatigable singer from the human figure, in color, of all his sensitivity as an artist. In these moments Carlo Cherubini becomes the Master who we all know, the intelligent heir of many great Venetian painters of the past. His language, then, becomes European, frees himself of all nettles, to reach a secret harmony. He stops the moment, captures a face, in the eyes, the mystery of life, seeks its own exaltation through light ... Many times the painting becomes an expression of a mood, a subtle melancholy, a Baudelairian spleen, an abandonment, a thoughtful moment full of sadness ... This is why Carlo Cherubini has his own specific physiognomy and is also the secret singer of our own soul ".

References / Exhibitions:

2011 "Carlo Cherubini" edited by Guido Moro and Michele Rovoletto.

2012 exhibition "Carlo Cherubini. A Venetian painter in Paris" at the Galleria Nuova Arcadia in Padua.

2015 in Scorzè, Villa Orsini, the exhibition from 19/12 to 7/1/2016, "Carlo Cherubini. A Venetian painter in Paris".