1992

1992

Cassinari suddenly died in his studio in via San Tomaso in Milan on the afternoon of the 26th March and it was the anniversary of his wife Enrica’s death. His works were exhibited at the Palazzo dei Diamanti in Ferrara (Artisti di Corrente), at the Mantegna’s house in Mantua, at the Art Gallery of Cesena, at the Villa Versiliana in Pietrasanta, on the occasion of the exhibition entitled Giamaica, arte a Milano 1946-1959, about Jamaican art, at the Permanent of Milan (Pittura a Milano 1945-1990), at the Palazzo Pubblico in Siena (Il palio visto dagli altri), at Casalgrande (Figure e paesaggi nella pittura contemporanea italiana, about landscapes in Italian contemporary painting) and finally at the Chiostro Arte Contemporanea in Saronno (Paesaggi, about landscapes in general). In the same year the Cannocchiale Gallery of Milan mounted the exhibition entitled Cassinari, Guttuso, Morlotti, Sassu.
On the occasion of the prize called Premio città di Jesi, in June an anthological exhibition was mounted for forty-one Cassinari’s works, which covered the period between 1931 and 1992; among them there were also Enrica in giallo (Enrica in Yellow),La finestra (The Window), Il grano maturo(Ripe Corn).Four of his paintings, including Frutti di mare(Shellfish) and Il porto di Antibes (The Port of Antibes), were exhibited at the event held in Lionello Venturi’s honour entitled Da Cézanne all’arte astratta (about the painting from Cézanne to Abstractionism), which took place first at Palazzo Forti in Verona and then at the Modern Art National Gallery of Rome.