Antonio Stagnoli - Face

Features

Artist:  Antonio Stagnoli (1922-2015)

Artwork title:  Volto

Age:  20th Century / 1901 - 2000

Subject:  Portrait/Face

Artistic technique:  Drawing

Technical specification:  Mixed Technique

Description : Volto

Mixed technique on plywood. Signed in the bottom left of the page. The face of a popular figure, strongly marked by age and life, that seems almost to be a clown. Antonio Stagnoli was a painter of the origin of brescia, but that they formed artistically in Milan. He had a childhood of suffering a disability and a condition difficult family, which led him to live since he was small at the Pio Istituto Pavoni of Brescia; he was the director of this Institute that he discovered and wanted to help his skill in painting, sending him to Milan at the Brera Academy of art. Here, even in the economic difficulties of daily life, offset by the sale of his early paintings, Antonio Stagnoli was able to get in touch with the protagonists of the New Figuration in italy, which will leave a trace in its production. He returned to Brescia at the end of the Academy, the painter remained in the Institute until the age of forty-five years, beginning, however, to expose in the first local shows and get noticed by the critics. From the next decade was a succession of presences decisive, Milan, Venice, Rome, but also abroad. His recurring themes are those related to the rural and mountain territory of Bagolino (country christmas), depicted with an original ability to interpret. The work was presented in the frame.

Product Condition:
Product in good conditions, shows some signs of wear.

Frame Size (cm):
Height: 68
Width: 60
Depth: 5

Artwork dimensions (cm):
Height: 60
Width: 50

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