La extravagante marquesa Luisa Casati fue la heredera de la mayor fortuna italiana de principios de siglo XX. Puso esmero en cultivar una imagen ambigua, entre culta y frívola, entre el arte y las drogas.
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Before Gaga, before Bowie—there was Marchesa Luisa Casati, the original haute-goth muse who turned herself into living art and burned through a fortune doing it.

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Augustus Edwin John was a Welsh painter, draughtsman, and etcher. For a time he was considered the most important artist at work in Britain with Virginia Woolf declaring that by 1908 the era of John Singer Sargent and Charles Wellington Furse "was over. The age of Augustus John was dawning." Luisa, Marchesa Casati Stampa di Soncino (born Luisa Adele Rosa Maria Amman), was an Italian heiress, socialite, and patroness of the arts in early 20th-century Europe. When both her parents died by the time she was fifteen, Luisa and her older sister, Francesca were reportedly the wealthiest women in Italy. Originally full length but cut down by the artist, this portrait depicts the Marchesa in silk pajamas, which float elegantly around her slim, pale arms and torso. With her left hand provocatively on her hip, she turns to survey the viewer, her lips moist, her large kohl-darkened eyes glowing beneath a mass of vivid, reddish-orange dyed curls. The amorphous mountain terrain background and the subject's smile allude to Leonardo's Mona Lisa, although La Casati is more seductive than mysterious. The Marchesa was notorious for her evocation of exotic and historical characters, typically at fancy dress parties. She appears in some guise or other in half of the over 125 known portrayals of her. The AGO's portrait is one of the most successful, John's bravura style matching the Marchesa's provocative gaze and pose. In 1919, while painting dignitaries at the Paris Peace Conference, he met the arresting Marchesa Casati, whose extravagance and narcissism were legendary. He was to draw or paint her four times in the course of their thirty-five year friendship.

The Marchesa Casati by Augustus John (British) - Oil on canvas / 1919 - Art Gallery of Ontario (Toronto) #womeninart #art #oilpainting #portraitofawoman #womensart #ArtGalleryofOntario #AGO #BritishArtist #AugustusJohn #artwork #fineart #LuisaCasati #influencer #beauty #socialite #style #WelshArtist