Tony Agostini (1916-1990) Oil On Canvas Still Life With Fruits

Still life with fruit bowl, oil on canvas by Tony Agostini, painter and lithographer of the School of Paris, born in 1916 in Bastia and died in 1990 in Antony (Hauts-de-Seine).
Signed lower right, countersigned and titled "Transparence" on the back.
Very good condition.
Dimensions without frame : 27 X 22 cm
Dimensions with frame : 40.5 X 35.5 cm
Tony Agostini is a self-taught painter. Although passionate about Rembrandt and Paul Cézanne at a very young age, it was the prospect of an administrative career in Paris that led him to settle in Montmartre where, in 1944, he became friends with Francis Carco, Marcel Aymé, and especially with the painter Gen Paul, whose neighbor he was on Avenue Junot. Tony Agostini was part of the La Chignolle fanfare with Gen Paul, Jean d'Esparbès, Frank-Will, Pere Créixams and Marcel Aymé.
He began painting in 1946, his first pictorial themes being crowd movements and Paris at night. "Perhaps influenced by Gen Paul in the color that was both harsh and gloomy, he observed the strict Cézanne principles in terms of form, sometimes inflected by cubism."
He then turned to landscapes, studio interiors and more essentially still life (a major theme in his work).
His personal practices of horse riding, cycling and especially rugby nevertheless gave meaning to his sending to the Salon des peintres témoins de leur temps in 1957 of a vast canvas entitled Rugby - Le plaquage. It was in this same year 1957 that Tony Agostini moved to Antony where he lived until his death.