ARARCO0292811
Modern Drawing with Letter Signed Remo Brindisi Italy 1961
Last Night of Mussolini and Claretta
Drawing on paper. The drawing is signed lower left, the letter is signed and dated. This is a unique letter written by Brindisi to a friend in 1961, in which he recounts his struggle to work on a series of works on fascism, which he created between 1960 and 1961. The letter is accompanied by a drawing, a sketch for the large-scale work "Last Night of Claretta Petacci and Mussolini" (oil on canvas, 180 x 200 cm), in which faces are grotesquely transfigured to represent historical horror. It is the work of the prominent Italian painter Remo Brindisi, whose painting, based on a descriptive and realistic approach in his early works, added expressionist nuances in his later works, giving rise to his own neo-figurative language. His work is always imbued with social and political intent. Brindisi also worked as a sculptor, illustrator, writer, set designer, and cultural curator. It comes from a private collection in Milan. In frame.