Portrait By Antoine Ferrari 1910-1995

Very beautiful and large portrait painted in oil on hardboard measuring 92cm x 65cm plus wooden frame 72cm x 100 signed lower right FERRARI Antoine FERRARI born in 1910 in Marseille, died in 1995 He is one of the greatest Provencal painters of his generation A gestural, lively, nervous painting for a character who exuded exemplary tranquility and serenity. He was a student of the fine arts in Marseille. At 17 he left for Paris and worked in a theater set workshop. He began to exhibit in 1928. He met Ambrogiani and from 1930 he obtained a scholarship to study painting. In 1937, he obtained the Abdel-Tif prize which will allow him to spend two years in Algeria. There he acquires his frank expression of color. He will take over Pascin's workshop in Paris. He will express himself through large nudes, portraits, bouquets, landscapes and views of the port of Marseille. His gesture which, after a long reflection, leaves like a stroke of the whip like a impulsive painter who will make him recognized as the most expressionist of contemporary Provençal painters This painting is in very good condition free shipping to the European Union