Filippo de Pisis * (Ferrara 1896–1956 Milan) La Bottiglia di cristallo, 1938, signed and dated, oil on canvas, 72.5 x 50 cm, framed Provenance: Galleria dell’Annunciata, Milan Private Collection, Milan acquired from the above by the present owner Literature: G.Ballo,De Pisis, Turin, 1968, no. 350. Giuliano Briganti, “De Pisis, Catalogo Generale. Tomo primo, Opere 1908–1938”, Electa Milan 1991, p. 431, no. 1938_27, with ill. DE PISIS The technique, that is, De Pisis’s means of expression, is more or less the familiar one: light touches and deep marks (where the colour darkens); an elusive but firm drawing, an aerial, soaring, windborne line. Such are the means from which the subject is woven – impalpable, transparent, glasslike in itself. Everything is clear, crazed with light. In order to make a comparison, we must seek recourse to Tintoretto – San Rocco comforted by the Angel, disposing of an equally elusive material. (Giuseppe Raimondi, “Filippo De Pisis”, Vallecchi Editore Firenze, 1952, p. 19)