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Italo Mus The Procession, oil on panel, dimensions 70 x 100 cm Signed lower right Italo Mus (CHATILLON 1892 - SAINT VINCENT 1967) On the back of the painting is the authentication by Luciano Proverbio. Joseph-Italo Mus (Châtillon, April 4, 1892 – Saint-Vincent, May 15, 1967) was an Italian painter. He was born in Châtillon, in the village of Chaméran, to Eugè Ne Mus, a sculptor originally from Torgnon, and Martine Vallaise, a descendant of a noble family from Arnads. The young man's artistic training began in his father's woodworking shop. Studies In 1909, on the advice of Lorenzo Delleani, he enrolled at the Academy of Fine Arts in Turin and attended courses in painting technique and drawing under the guidance of masters Giacomo Grosso, Paolo Gaidano, Luigi Onetti and Marchisio, artists faithful to tradition, the cult of the ancient and according to whom it was essential to know how to draw things according to the real contour and then color them. Very attached to the Vallée, Mus will only leave it for short periods, in 1913 for fresco and restoration work first in Lyon, then in Lausanne and in Friesch, near Briga. He participated in the Great War and during a transfer, in 1920, he met Giuseppina Crenna, whom he married at the end of the conflict and with whom he had four children. In 1932 Mus created the Monument to the Fallen of the First World War in Saint Vincent. The work, modeled in clay and then cast in bronze in Milan, depicted an Alpino (Alpine soldier) with a rifle in his hand supporting a dead comrade on his knees. No trace of the monument remains because it was destroyed in the 1940s before the Second World War for the collection of metal. In 1938, Guido Marangoni, an art critic, saw Mus's works in his studio and was so impressed that he wrote an article in the art magazine Perseo, defining Mus as a "painter of great talent." During that period Mus met the most valid artists of his generation such as Carlo Carrà, Antonio Ligabue, Pietro Morando and Francesco Menzio. For a period he collaborated in his Saint-Vincent studio with De Pisis and in 1956 some of his paintings were exhibited in New York and Buenos Aires. In the mid-sixties, while he was still fully active, he was struck by a serious illness which prevented him from working again and on May 15, 1967 he died in Saint-Vincent. The municipal administration, remembering one of its most illustrious sons, dedicated the street where Mus had his studio for many years to him. A valley, a painter: Italo Mus: with this title the director Gianpaolo Taddeini made in 1979 for RAI-Valle d'Aosta a television drama based on a text by Ugo Ronfani which tells the human and artistic story of Mus.