Giuseppe Pellizza da Volpedo c 1896-1902
Oil on canvas,79.5 x 107 cm
Musee d'Orsay,Paris Broken Flower (mk19) Italian, 1868-1907
was an Italian painter. He was born and died in Volpedo, in the Piedmont region of northern Italy. Pellizza, considered a neo-impressionist artist, was a divisionist painter - using small dots of paints according to specific color theory. His most famous work is Il Quarto Stato ("The Fourth estate"). This rich, expressive work has become a well-known symbol for progressive and socialist causes in Italy, and through out Europe.
