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Gianpaolo Berto Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

Italian, 1940-2003
Gian Paolo Berto born and raised in the limited but fervent artistic environment of Adria after the war where, apart from the isolated and not yet rediscovered genius of the Anglo-Saxon Foster, a new cultural climate was forming alongside the figures of Scarpari, Reali, Rizzi, Palmieri , Gioli. Then in Rovigo, he is studying with Prudenziato and Breseghello and in friendship with Gabbris Ferrari. The meeting with the masters Zancanaro and Levi is dazzling and constitutes the springboard of this eclectic artist in the world of contemporary Italian painting. Despite having been among the very few admitted to De Chirico's studio (but also by Guttuso and Picasso), and has exhibited in prestigious galleries and museums, Berto has always exempted himself from appearing in the windows of the great art market, preferring contact, in an anti-elitist key, with the most genuine audiences: students, simple people, artists and intellectuals who conduct their research with rigor and autonomy from fashions and trends. This does not mean that his painting is detached from the context of contemporary art. Indeed, the painter's characteristic appropriation of the reality that surrounds him and the evolving forms of painting in Berto is explicit and, as often happens in art, prophecy. The debt contracted by American Pop towards the European one is known: a front that at the time found an attentive and operative Berto and then, in the following decades, ready to grasp the flourishing of the successive frontiers of art.
(Biography provided by Robert Azensky Fine Art)
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Artist: Gianpaolo Berto
Motherhood - Original Pencil Drawing - 1976
By Gianpaolo Berto
Located in Roma, IT
Motherhood is a contemporary artwork in pencil realized by Gian Paolo Berto during the 1970s. hand-signed and dated on the lower left. Dimensions: 51 x 46cm In very good conditio...
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1970s Contemporary Gianpaolo Berto Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

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Study for the Murder of Marat - China Ink Drawing - 1968
By Gianpaolo Berto
Located in Roma, IT
Study for the Murder of Marat (Studio per l'uccisione di Marat) is the original black ink and black marker drawing on paper, realized in 1968 by Gian Paolo Berto (Andria, Italy, 1940...
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1960s Synthetic Cubist Gianpaolo Berto Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

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