Natura morta

This still life, dated 1915, depicts a corner of a table on which stands a teapot, a steaming cup, a cigarette resting on an ashtray and a long, slender vase which contrasts with the full blooms it contains. The colours scatter in the light into warm golden tones and cold blue flecks.
What is represented is a scene of everyday life, of elegant practical objects, which evoke a readily identifiable middle-class lifestyle in the early 20th century.
The work was completed at the height of Camillo Innocenti’s artistic career, during the Roman Secession, and contains clear traces of his encounter, in Paris in 1911, with the art of Pierre Bonnard.