FILIPPO DE PISIS (Ferrara 1896-Brugherio 1956) Cocò alla finestra 40s ca. Oil on canvas 50 x 40 cm The subject represented in the painting, the parrot Cocò, is not rare in Filippo De Pisis' artistic production. The animal was usually represented in paintings made around the 1940s and it was not uncommon, according to accounts of the time, to meet the artist walking around Venice with Cocò on his shoulder. Filippo De Pisis dedicated poems to Cocò. On the back various labels by Galleria del Milione in Milan, Galleria d'arte del Naviglio in Milan and Galleria d'arte La Borgognona in Rome, also various stamps by Galleria del Milione in Milan, Galleria d'arte del Naviglio in Milan, Galleria d'arte La Borgognona in Rome and by Galleria Annunciata in Milan Excellent conditions, framed with glass and passepartout

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