Plate IX (facing page 58) from ALCUNE POESIE

Filippo De Pisis was an Italian painter and poet who worked in oil and tempera, creating intimate still lifes and figurative compositions marked by a lyrical, introspective sensibility. Active from the 1920s onward, his work oscillated between figurative representation and an increasingly expressive, almost dreamlike approach to color and form. His paintings often featured flowers, fish, and solitary figures rendered with a delicate, nervous brushstroke that conveyed psychological depth beneath apparent simplicity. De Pisis divided his career between Italy and Paris, developing a modernist practice distinct from the dominant geometric abstraction of his era.

Ferrara, Italy