The Three Aces (1891). Vittorio Matteo Corcos (Italian, 1859-1933). Oil on canvas.By 1891, the year
The Three Aces (1891). Vittorio Matteo Corcos (Italian, 1859-1933). Oil on canvas.By 1891, the year The Three Aces was painted, Corcos had returned to Italy with an established reputation and a Parisian dealer. Goupil was a savvy commercial enterprise, and decorative prints and paintings of enticing young women was one of their specialties. In a recent review of the Corcos retrospective at the Palazzo Zabarella in Padua, Roderick Conway Morris describes what The Three Aces makes evident: “technical skills in reproducing luxurious women’s fashions and the milky-white and subtly blushing complexions of the young ladies wearing them made him an ideal supplier… Corcos was also adept at infusing these paintings with a fresh-faced sexuality without exceeding the bounds of bourgeois decorum, and Goupil admiringly described him as a painter who was ‘chastely impure’.” -- source link
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