Dino Cavallari Sold at Auction Prices

Dino was Italian by heritage and birth. For reasons of war, incarceration, breakdown of health, expatriation to study at the Academie de Beaux Arts in Paris, and marriage to a French woman, he spent most of his life living with her and their son in the capital and in Burgundy. He was an artist, a sculptor early, but due to health issues he turned exclusively to painting and eventually adding to the illustration of books. Existence he knew both through crisis and happiness. He painted essences by observing and imagining attributes. An old woman with a bent back, her shoulders covered by a blue shawl, her long arms pushing a cart of produce, lived on his canvas without existing being a question. His art was drawn from nature both observed and imagined without question or distinction. Art was what he did, saw and was.It was an action other than science, philosophy or religion, fusing each through color and format enhanced by family hospitality to guests, by food, and by the harmony of each with cheese and wine. He was Catholic by cultural heritage, libertarian by political skepticism , undogmatic by religious egalitarianism . He painted meditating Buddhas, whirling Sufi dervishes, martyred Christs, guiding Moseses, sacrificing Abrahams, and journeying Gilgameshes, all in miniature narrative studies. Religion was for him a narrative of many episodes and colors, of essences and by art of forms.