Vincenzo D'Esposito (1886-1946) - Watercolourist (original) (raw)

1994, Liber Amicorum - Essays in Art and History in Honour of Albert Ganado

ABSTRACT: Vincenzo D'Esposito - a little-known itinerant watercolour artist in Malta from the first decades of the 20th century - had spent his life till 1940 totally immersed in Maltese popular environment while cultivating for a living the marine art genre. Although barely acknowledged at the time, D'Esposito's marine views often echo a gentle reminder of fin-de-siecle melancholy, shared by Italian crepuscular practitioners in art and literature, foreshadowing the untoward tragedy of his final years.