Once Upon A Time (ada)”, 1974 – Tuscan Naïve Painter And Mathematician: Gastone Lanfredini.

Once Upon a Time (Ada)”, 1974 – Tuscan Naïve Painter and Mathematician: Gastone Lanfredini.
Sansepolcro Artist: Gastone Lanfredini (1923–2005) Title: C’era una volta (Ada) Medium: Tempera grassa on canvas Dimensions: 50 x 60 cm (canvas) – 70 x 80 cm (with frame) Date: 12.1974 Signature: Titled, signed and dated on the reverse Condition: Very good condition An emblematic work from the mature period of Gastone Lanfredini, C’era una volta (Ada) evokes a Tuscan landscape reshaped by memory and imagination. Populated with stylized figures, horses, and schematic architecture, the composition offers a poetic and ordered vision of the rural world. The colors are bold, the forms essential. The pictorial language blends the precision of a mathematician with the tenderness of a naïve gaze. The title, intimate and evocative, places the painting within a narrative suspended between reality and remembrance. The Artist Originally from Florence, Gastone Lanfredini settled in Sansepolcro, where he developed a personal style in the 1960s that combined geometric abstraction with naïve expression. His work, deeply rooted in the Tuscan countryside, was honored in 2023 with a major retrospective at Palazzo Alberti: From Sensibility to Essence – Centenary of His Birth (1923–2023).