PIETRO MORANDO

LA GALLERYA PRESENTS A PAIR OF WORKS BY THE MASTER PIETRO MORANDO 1930s/40s, ALSO SOLD SEPARATELY TEMPERA ON PAPER H 55 CM X W 45 CM Born in the Orti district of Alessandria, he attended high school in his hometown. He spent his entire life in his hometown, taking long trips to France and overseas. He sporadically studied at the Albertina Academy in Turin; a scholarship (1913) allowed him to enroll in painting courses at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts in Milan. He met Angelo Morbelli, whose studio he visited and with whom he temporarily shared a passion for divisionism. Pietro Morando, "fatally struck" charcoal on paper glued to canvas 35x56cm His love for drawing led him to produce numerous works, even using the meager means available during the First World War. He thus created tragic war drawings (almost a reportage) that were later published in the volume "I Giganti", with a presentation by the sculptor Leonardo Bistolfi from Casale Monferrato. For decades he frequented the Milanese studio of Carlo Carrà, with whom he shared, in addition to friendship, also cultural discussions and exchanges in the field of painting. He distinguished himself for his simple and incisive style and intense color and decisive strokes, with which he gave strength and life, but also poetry, to his subjects, almost always the poor people, porters and farmers, as well as the views of his city and the Monferrato countryside. He exhibited at the Promotrice in Turin from 1920 and participated in the Rome Quadriennale and the Milan Triennale. He exhibited at the Venice Biennale in 1924, 1926, 1928, 1932, 1934, 1948, 1950, 1956. The exhibitions at the Promotrice in the 1950s were held together with the younger Alessandrian Franco Sassi, a pupil of Bozzetti and a great admirer of the painter in question. Morando's works are located at the Italian Historical War Museum in Rovereto as well as at the civic art gallery of Alessandria. [2] TELEPHONE CONTACT IS APPRECIATED LUCA 339 37 97 813 LA GALLERYA WHOLESALE AND RETAIL LARGE EXHIBITION WITH WAREHOUSE 1000 SQM HIGH ANTIQUES FINE ART, PAINTING, SCULPTURES, MARBLES, AND ANCIENT ART OBJECTS VISIT ALL OUR PROPOSALS ACCOMPANIED BY CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICITY IN VIA AUTOSTRADA 34D MAGLIANO ALPI MOTORWAY TO/SV EXIT CARRU 500M TO THE LEFT ESTIMATES, APPRAISALS, INHERITANCES AND HEREDITARY DIVISIONS WE PRIVATELY PURCHASE ANTIQUES, ANTIQUE FURNITURE, ENTIRE ESTATES IMMEDIATE PAYMENT MAX SERIOUSNESS WEEKLY NEW ARRIVALS WE ARE ALSO AVAILABLE FOR PERSONALIZED APPOINTMENTS OUTSIDE OF HOURS