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Located in the heart of Rome, we accumulated a profound understanding of the modern and contemporary art world, over a quarter of a century. Using our knowledge, we are passionately guiding new collectors on their journey to start or enrich their valuable art collections.
Salvo
Salvo (Leonforte, Enna, 1947 – Turin, 2015) Salvo (real name Salvatore Mangione) was born in Leonforte, in the province of Enna in 1947. In 1956 he and his family move from Catania to Turin, which will always remain his adoptive city. In the early 1960s he begins painting and supports himself by selling low-priced portraits, landscapes and copies of Rembrandt and Van Gogh. In 1963 he participates in the 121st Esposizione della Società Promotrice delle Belle Arti with a drawing after Leonardo.
Salvo, "Alba di luna", cm 34, 2001, Oil on canvas
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Francesco Clemente, "Albero della vita", cm 66 x 48, 1989, pastel on paper
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Francesco Clemente
Italian painter Francesco Clemente came to prominence in the mid-1970s with vivid paintings rife with erotic imagery of mutilated body parts, gesturing amorphous figures often depicted in rich colors, as well as a series of contorted self-portraits. Fascinated with Indian art and mysticism, his gouache paintings and pastel drawings are especially noted for their intense and arcane quasi-religious content that has grown increasingly surreal in his later works. Though large in scale, Clemente’s work often conveys an uncanny and unabashed intimacy. Clemente has been compared to such painters as Georg Baselitz and David Salle.
Sherrie Levine
Sherrie Levine (born 1947) is an American photographer, painter, and conceptual artist. Some of her work consists of exact photographic reproductions of the work of other photographers such as Walker Evans, Eliot Porter and Edward Weston.
Sherrie Levine, "Lead Hexagon: 2", cm 50 x 40, 1988, Casein and lead on panel
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Mauro Di Silvestre, "Un quadro coi fiocchi", cm 160 x 220, 2007-2008, oil on canvas
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Mauro Di Silvestre
Mauro Di Silvestre lives and works in Rome. Mauro Di Silvestre was born in Rome in 1968, he studied painting in Los Angeles and Rome. He gets several public awards such as the City of Lissone Prize in 2001 and the Celeste Prize in 2004, winning the 2nd and the dedicated prize respectively to the category of Emerging Painters.
Giorgio de Chirico
Giorgio de Chirico,10 July 1888 – 20 November 1978, was an Italian artist and writer born in Greece. In the years before World War I, he founded the scuola metafisica art movement, which profoundly influenced the surrealists. His most well-known works often feature Roman arcades, long shadows, mannequins, trains, and illogical perspective. His imagery reflects his affinity for the philosophy of Arthur Schopenhauer and of Friedrich Nietzsche, and for the mythology of his birthplace.
Giorgio de Chirico, "Après-midi d'été", cm 9 x 13, 1940, pencil on paper
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Massimo Campigli, "Due scalinate", cm 66 x 92, 1956, oil on canvas
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Massimo Campigli
Massimo Campigli, born Max Ihlenfeldt, 4 July 1895 – 31 May 1971, was an Italian painter and journalist. He started to paint upon his arrival in Paris, where at the Café du Dôme he consorted with artists including Giorgio de Chirico, Alberto Savinio, Gino Severini and Filippo De Pisis. Extended visits to the Louvre deepened Campigli's interest in ancient Egyptian art, which became a lasting source of his own painting.His early figurative works applied geometrical designs to the human figure, reflecting the influence of Pablo Picasso and Fernand Léger as well as the Purism of "L’Esprit Nouveau".
Don Eddy
Don Eddy (born 1944) is a contemporary representational painter.He gained recognition in American art around 1970 amid a group of artists that critics and dealers identified as Photorealists or Hyperrealists, based on their work's high degree of verisimilitude and use of photography as a resource material.
