Walter Lazzar, "summer," Oil On Plywood, Signed, 1960o

Walter Lazzaro, "Summer," Oil on plywood, signed, 1960

Beautiful painting depicting a classic summer scene, the main subject of the scene is a parasol that classic from the painter's early iconographic period

Stamp Marconi Gallery Forte dei Marmi 

Signed lower right and dated 1981 lower left

Measurements: Framed W 62 x H 42 / Tablet (Farsite) H 14.9 x W 33 cm

Walter Lazzaro (Rome 1914 - Milan 1989) is an Italian painter and actor. His training took place in Rome at the Liceo Artistico and the Accademiadi Belle Arti in Rome. From 1935 he became a teacher of Painting at the Liceo Artistico in Rome and at the Academies of Fine Arts in Rome, Carrara, Bologna,Milan-Brera. The iconographic peculiarity that distinguishes his art of the early period is the presence of deserted beaches with solitary boats, umbrellas and deckchairs, blue and white striped cabins, or motionless figures hinted at, bathed in a diaphanous light. According to Giorgio De Chirico, "one feels the subtle presence of this life that is silent, this silent life that by its silence says many things that, commonly, cannot be heard." The war largely marks his life. Taken prisoner while serving as a lieutenant in the grenadiers, he is deported to a camp in Poland. He would describe this experience in numerous drawings and paintings with contorted and suffering figures. At the end of the conflict he begins to paint again but from that time on the human figure is absent from his landscapes