Giovanni Costetti Painted On Two Sides, Oil On Pressed Cardboard,

GIOVANNI COSTETTI Painted on two sides, oil on pressed cardboard, portrait of a woman and on the other side a Pompeian scene. measures 64 x 45 cm.                       Giovanni Costetti was born in Reggio Emilia in 1874. A prominent painter of the first half of the 20th century, he studied in Reggio and his talent soon led him to collaborate with the most illustrious artists of the time (Giovanni Fattori, Armando Spadini, Ardengo Soffici etc.etc ..
The advent of fascism pushes Costetti to join the Manifesto of anti-fascist intellectuals promoted by Benedetto Croce in 1925, then to move away from Italy for fifteen years, traveling between Paris, Oslo and Utrecht, while his vision of art tends to sublimate and becoming increasingly spiritualized, Costetti died in Settignano (Florence) in 1949, shortly after his return to Italy.
The artist's works are today mainly preserved in the Civic Museums of Reggio Emilia, the Gallery of Palazzo Pitti in Florence and numerous private collections.