1948

1948

A personal exhibition was mounted in Turin at the Bussola. He took part in the V Quadriannale Nazionale d’Arte, a national exhibition presented at the Modern Art National Gallery in Rome, where he exhibited two paintings. At the Biennial Exhibition of Modern Art in Venice the association Fronte Nuovo presented eleven artists and Cassinari exhibited nine of his paintings, among them Panno viola (Purple Cloth) and Ritratto di Bianca Garufi (The Portrait of Bianca Garufi), who was a roman poetess and psychologist. One of his works, Nudo nella cattedrale (Nude in the Cathedral) won the first prize at the second national art exhibition held in Alexandria (Premio città d’Alessandria), while he won the second prize at the exhibition in St. Vincent, Premio per la Pittura e Scultura. In the same year he visited Rouault’s anthological exhibition in Zurich. He worked for the Einaudi publishing house and illustrated a poem written by Éluard (Poésie ininterrompue).