"What I am, Michael, is a 32 year-old, ugly, pock marked Jew fairy, and if it takes me a little while to pull myself together, and if I smoke a little grass before I get up the nerve to show my face to the world, it's nobody's god-damned business but my own. And how are you this evening?"
“Narcissus”, Date Unknown, Silkscreen Print, Edition of 50, Sheet Size 90 x 85 cm, Private Collection. ~ Corrado Cagli (1910-1976).
CORRADO CAGLI was an Italian painter of Jewish heritage. Born in the city of Ancona in February of 1910.
Cagli was a member of the Scuola Romana, an art movement of Expressionist painters in Rome who were active between 1928 and 1945.
With the enactment of the Racial Laws, Cagli was forced into exile, first to Paris, a place he had visited as a young star painter from Italy, and then to the United States, where he later became a citizen.
After the war, Cagli returned in 1948 to Rome and made it his permanent residence.