Luigi Corbellini

Luigi Corbellini (11 August 1901 – 9 May 1968) was an Italian post-impressionist painter and sculptor. Early life Corbellini was born in 1901 in Piacenza, Italy,

In 1923, Corbellini moved to Paris and took a room in a boarding house in Montmartre, waiting for a place at the Bateau-Lavoir. A year later, he was able to take a studio which had once been occupied by Pablo Picasso.

Career In the summer of 1924, Corbellini was painting scenes in Deauville, where one day his work was admired by Robert de Rothschild, who invited him to paint the portrait of his daughter. This led on to other work. Boni de Castellane commissioned him to paint all of his horses, and Corbellini was able to move from Montmartre to Montparnasse.

By 1928, Corbellini was exhibiting work at the salon of the Société des Artistes Indépendants, later at the Salon des Tuileries, Salon d'Automne, and others. His paintings continued to be exhibited in Parisian galleries until the 1960s.

He became a painter of portraits, landscapes, cityscapes and genre scenes. He was also a sculptor.

In 1941, during the Second World War, with Maurice Dufrêne, Pierre Gandon, Gérard Cochet, and others Corbellini was one of the few painters and sculptors who received the higher rate of 10,000 Francs from the City of Paris to compensate artists and intellectuals for loss of income.

In 1947 Corbellini moved to New York City. He spent the last years of his life travelling the world. He had exhibitions in New York, Los Angeles, Pasadena, Palm Beach, Caracas, Tahiti, Hong Kong, and Japan.

Exhibitions France Galerie Carmine, Paris: 1927, 1928, 1930, 1931 Galerie Armand Drouant, Paris: 1931, 1933 Galerie Barreiro, Paris: 1932, 1934, 1936 Galerie Borghèse, Paris: 1935 Galerie Charpentier, Paris: 1937 Galerie Dalpayrat, Limoges: 1937 Galerie Grand, Lausanne: 1937 Galerie Aktuaryus, Strasbourg: 1938 Galerie Chardin, Paris: 1944, 1945 Galerie Jouffroy, Paris: 1944 Galerie d'Orsel, Paris: 1945 Galerie Mignon-Massard, Nantes: 1945 Galerie Drouant-David, Paris: 1948 Galerie Bonval, Paris: 1949 Galerie J. Hamon, Le Havre: 1950 Galerie Malaval, Lyon: 1956 Galerie Durand-Ruel, Paris : 1956, 1958, 1960, 1962 United States University of Colombia, New York: 1948 Hugo gallery, New York: 1949 Cowie galleries, Los Angeles: 1950, 1953, 1956 Hammer galleries, New York: 1952, 1954, 1956, 1959, 1961, 1964, 19663 Findlay galleries, Chicago: 1959, 1961, 1962 Findlay Palm Beach, Florida: 1961, 1962 Manhattan galleries, Pasadena, California: 1961, 1963, 1966 Juarez gallery, Los Angeles: 1962, 1970 Venezuela Acquavella, Caracas: 1964

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