20th Century Italian Design Coffee Table or Side Table by Enrico Paulucci, 1960s

Enrico Paulucci was born in Genoa, on October 13, 1901. He is remembered as a member of the Turin Group of Six. In the years 1927–28, he began to frequent the best-known painters in the Turin area and became friends with Felice Casorati and then with Lionello Venturi and Edoardo Persico. In 1928, he moved to Paris, where he deepened his knowledge of French painting and became interested in the work of Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Raoul Dufy and Georges Braque. In 1929, he returned to Turin, where he joined his friends Gigi Chessa, Carlo Levi, Nicola Galante, Francesco Menzio and Jessie Boswell and with them, he formed the Group of the Six of Turin, supported by Lionello Venturi and Edoardo Persico. The group looks at post-impressionist French painting. They spoke of freedom and Europe in a climate where art was threatened by nationalism and by autarchic withdrawal. The group disbanded in 1931, but Paulucci, Menzio and Levi still exhibited together in 1931–32 in Paris, London and Rome. In Turin, together with Felice Casorati, Paulucci founded the Casorati-Paulucci studio, where he organized many avant-garde exhibitions, including the first Italian art exhibition by the Milanese group Milione. He died in Turin, on August 22, 1999.