By Renato Guttuso
Located in Roma, IT
Allegories: the Morning Visit is an original Contemporary artwork realized after the Italian artist Renato Guttuso (Bagheria, 1911 – Rome, 1987) in 1979.
Colored Offset on paper.
The autograph signature of the artist is present on the lower right corner: Guttuso. On the lower left corner: Renato Guttuso - Le Allegorie: La visita mattutina - 1979.
Good conditions: some foxings spots are present on the lower margin.
Renato Guttuso (Bagheria, 1911 – Rome, 1987). His father Gioacchino, a land-surveyor and amateur watercolourist, and his mother Giuseppina d’Amico, due to disagreements with their own town depending on their liberal ideas, registered the birth on 2 January 1912 in Palermo. In his birthplace Guttuso discovered painting at a very early age; as he himself wrote: “… among my father’s watercolours, the studio of the painter Domenico Quattrociocchi and the workshop of the cart painter Emilio Murdolo my path was taking shape when I was six, seven, ten years old…”.Guttuso was awarded the Lenin Prize at the time of his exhibition at the Art Academy in Moscow, 1972. The same year a large retrospective toured Eastern Europe calling at Praha, Bucarest, Bratislava and Budapest. Two major paintings belong to this period: La Vucciria (1974), later presented by the artist to the University of Palermo, and Caffe...
Category
1970s Contemporary Figurative Prints