Franco Gentilini, "small Banquet No. 2," Oil On Cardboard, 1900s Era

Franco Gentilini, "Small Banquet No. 2," Oil on cardboard, 1900s era

Fine oil painting on sandblasted and inlaid cardboard, unsigned.
Rome Exhibition 1984
The painting was used for the realizazzione of the last of the six lithographs in the album Vita e Miracoli di Ermenegildo Simontacchi, Livorno 1982;
On the back Luciana Gentilini Collections.
Artissima Torino Lingotto Fiere label
Authentication Luciana Gentilini
Artwork featured in the General Catalog p. 725 Ref. 1713

Measurements: Sandblasted intel board H 22 x W 28 cm

BIOGRAPHY
Franco Gentilini(Faenza 1909 - Rome 1981). 
A keen observer of reality, Gentilini composed with an ironic, amused vein and a dreamy patheticism.
Gentilini's artistic world was formed in the context of Italian culture between World War II and the postwar period. The artist fine-tunes his well-known technique characterized by a happy combination of painting and drawing on a textured preparatory ground mixed with sand. The themes of his works are cathedrals, baptisteries, jugglers and street musicians, landscapes with irregular perspectives, women characterized by booties with spool heels, bicycles, trucks, cats and lions. Gentilini is the artist of joie de vivre, despite the fact that in these years he portrays a world shattered by World War II.