Pagan Luigi – Market In Chioggia (venice)

Pagan Luigi – Market in Chioggia (Venice)

50cm x 70cm - unframed
79cm x 90cm - with frame
oil on canvas 1930s

This is a painting that tells a story, on a winter morning, with the crowd strolling along the Canal Vena, among the stalls of the Chioggia fish market.

From the canal, the fishermen's boats slowly approach, returning from night fishing, to supply the sellers with their wares.

The beauty of this painting, as well as in the pictorial technique, lies in the contrast of colors with which the painter tells his story and at the same time contextualizes it:
– The upper part of the painting describes the time of year, winter, with gray houses, the sky desaturated in the morning fog, from which emerges the profile of the bell tower of the Church of Santa Caterina.
– The lower part is, however, the story, the teeming vitality of the people, the saturated and lively colors, among which red stands out but even more the blue palette.

The painting is offered with the original Marconi frame in white lacquer with gold highlights, or it is possible to customize it with an antique fir frame or other kind on request.

Pagan Luigi

Luigi Pagan (Chioggia 1907 – Ivi 1980) is an interesting landscape painter who has made the city of Chioggia one of his main themes. A characteristic of his painting is to touch impressionist and expressionist values with unique and personal lights and atmospheres. The technical mastery is combined with the suggestions that the painted landscape emanates.
He was born into a family of fishermen and with the death of his father during the First World War he had to look after his mother and two brothers. He carries out his studies at a boarding school for war orphans, pursuing his passion for art.

Various study and work experiences lead him to Turin where he comes into contact with the artistic tradition of the place. However, the real artistic training is completed in Venice at the Scuola D'Arte dei Carmini and the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice. He becomes the cantor of a heroic epic which Comisso then tells through art and poetry.

Already in the fifties and sixties he collected flattering successes, also exhibiting in the United States and South Africa. Paintings by him are housed in the Bevilacqua La Masa Foundation in Venice. In 2008, one hundred years after his birth, his native Chioggia dedicated an important retrospective exhibition to him at the civic museum.