Nicola Simbari Portrait Prints
Italian painter Nicola Simbari used vivid color to convey the beauty and richness of life. His figurative paintings and drawings were often set in serene Mediterranean landscapes, giving them a romantic quality. Simbari had a distinctive contemporary and expressionist style characterized by broad strokes of saturated pastels, creating scenes that seemed to be soaked in sunlight.
Simbari was born in 1927 in Calabria, Italy, a region known for its stunning sea vistas. When he was three years old, his family moved to Rome, where his father worked as an architect at the Vatican. Surrounded and enthralled by the city’s cultural masterpieces, Simbari decided to pursue art. He studied painting and architecture at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma and opened his studio when he was 22 years old.
In 1953, Simbari held his first solo show in Rome and won a best stage design award for the musical Tarantella Napoletana. In 1958, he had a solo show in London and a mural commission for the Italian Pavilion at the Brussels World’s Fair.
Simbari never stopped growing as an artist. He experimented with many styles throughout his career and constantly pursued new colors to expand his range as a painter. When he died in 2012, Simbari was considered one of Italy’s greatest living artists.
Today, Simbari’s work is held in both private and public collections across the globe, including the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, the Liberty Company, the Christian Dior Collection, the Bank of Tokyo, the University of Cincinnati Fine Arts Department, the Exxon Corporation and the Tulsa Bank of Commerce.
Simbari’s paintings continue to resonate with viewers. In 2021, Findlay Galleries in Palm Beach, Florida, presented “Mediterraneo,” an exhibition of his landscapes and figurative works.
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1970s Modern Nicola Simbari Portrait Prints
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1970s Expressionist Nicola Simbari Portrait Prints
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1970s Expressionist Nicola Simbari Portrait Prints
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1990s Expressionist Nicola Simbari Portrait Prints
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1970s Expressionist Nicola Simbari Portrait Prints
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1980s Impressionist Nicola Simbari Portrait Prints
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1980s Impressionist Nicola Simbari Portrait Prints
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1940s Fauvist Nicola Simbari Portrait Prints
Lithograph
1960s Modern Nicola Simbari Portrait Prints
1940s American Realist Nicola Simbari Portrait Prints
Offset
2010s Realist Nicola Simbari Portrait Prints
Digital Pigment, Permanent Marker, Laid Paper
Late 19th Century Nicola Simbari Portrait Prints
Engraving, Mezzotint
2010s Contemporary Nicola Simbari Portrait Prints
Archival Pigment, Digital Pigment, Screen, Archival Paper, Color, Digita...
2010s Street Art Nicola Simbari Portrait Prints
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Early 1900s Vienna Secession Nicola Simbari Portrait Prints
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20th Century Expressionist Nicola Simbari Portrait Prints
Woodcut
2010s Land Nicola Simbari Portrait Prints
Paper
Late 19th Century Nicola Simbari Portrait Prints
Foam Board, Black and White
1980s Surrealist Nicola Simbari Portrait Prints
Lithograph
Early 2000s Nicola Simbari Portrait Prints
Giclée
1970s Contemporary Nicola Simbari Portrait Prints
Canvas, Giclée
Late 20th Century Nicola Simbari Portrait Prints
Screen
1990s Impressionist Nicola Simbari Portrait Prints
Paper, Screen
1980s Impressionist Nicola Simbari Portrait Prints
Canvas, Giclée
1980s Impressionist Nicola Simbari Portrait Prints
Paper, Screen
1980s Expressionist Nicola Simbari Portrait Prints
Paper, Screen
1970s Expressionist Nicola Simbari Portrait Prints
Paper, Screen
1980s Expressionist Nicola Simbari Portrait Prints
Paper, Screen
1970s Expressionist Nicola Simbari Portrait Prints
Paper, Screen
1980s Expressionist Nicola Simbari Portrait Prints
Screen, Paper