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Vincenzo Frunzo ptg. Ricardo di un Paesagio

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Artist: Frunzo, Vincenzo (Italian, b.1910 - d.1999)
Title: Ricordo di un Paesagio
Date: 1961
Medium: oil and mixed media on canvas
Dimensions: 23.75 x 28.8 inches
Description: An early European Abstract Expressionist Painting
Signature: signed and dated Frunzo 61 lower right
Provenance: Dargate Auction House: Pittsburgh Pa.
Frame Type: artist's strip frame
Frame Size: 24.5 x 29.75 inches Born in La Spezia, Italy on August 5th, 1910 ; Frunzo studied art in La Spezia, Milan , and Rome before World War II.. During the war Italian Artists enjoyed a somewhat freer life than their counterparts in Nazi Occupied Europe. Whereas many artists from the occupied countries were being shipped off to concentration and labor camps the Italians were able to produce art as long as it me the Fascist Guidelines set down by the Ministry of Culture since the 1920's. Unlike may of his contemporary artists in Italy like Severini , Fontana ,& Balla ; Frunzo was not a futurist ; his work can be compared more to the abstract expressionists of American and Britain like Pollock, Rothko & Motherwell. A founding member of " the Group of Seven" (1948-52) whose members included other painters from La Spezia such as Gino Bellani, Giancarlo Carozzi, Guglielmo Carro, Bruno Guaschino and Giacomo Porzano they painted works that might be considered "variedly naturalist abstraction". An exponent of the "MAC" or, "Concrete Art Movement" Frunzo during the post-war period gave himself more to painting and sculpture with his sculptures showing only faint traces of this abstract style because they are firmly grounded on the human figure; even if some slight abstract evidence may be traced in the works from this period and from time to time in the following periods; for instance in his sculptures "The Family" (1949), "The Meeting" (1973), "Farmers" (1975). Frunzo's works were exhibited at the prestigious Venice Biennale and the Quadrennial in Rome in the fifties and sixties, and he has received numerous National and International Awards for his work during his lifetime. His work can be found in museum collections around the world including ;The Livorno Art Museum, Italy : the Institute for Art History in Munich, Germany : the Bibliotheca Hertziana and The Max-Planck-Institute for Art History both in Rome, Italy :and the Art History Institute in Florence, Italy. Frunzo died in Rome in 1999 where a State Funeral was held.

in good condition apart from some crazing in the upper left corner

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