Beautiful oil painting by master Enrico Paulucci, where a Regatta is depicted. As always, one can admire the mastery in the use of color.
Work archived Paulucci Archive on April 12, 1995 No. 0932
Signed at lower right
Measurements: Framed H 49.5 x W 56 / Canvas H 24 x W 30 cm
BIOGRAPHY
Enrico Paulucci was born in Genoa in 1901. He completed his studies in Turin. During his high school years he revealed his inclination for painting and participated in the Futurist group. His encounters with Turin's artistic milieu are from the late 1920s: Casorati and Venturi, Persico and Soldati, Debenedetti and Gromo, Sobrero and Sottsas, Argan and Bertini.
In 1928 he went to Paris and the following year, together with Chessa, Levi, Galante, Menzio and Boswell he formed the "Six Painters" group, which exhibited in Turin, Genoa, Milan, and then Paris, London and Rome.
In 1939 he is called to the chair of painting at the Accademia Albertina. During the war years he moved to Rapallo. In 1954 he is present at the Venice Biennale with a solo room; he will have it again in 1966. The following year he became director of the Academy, of which he would later be president. His activity across borders was also intense: London, Linz, Prague, Cairo, Nice, Stockholm, São Paulo, Barcelona, New York, Geneva, Oslo, etc.