Carlo Quaglia, 1950s, Oil & Masonite, Framed

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A beautiful and evocative painting by the great Italian painter Carlo Quaglia.
It depicts a glimpse of Rome rendered with … Read more A beautiful and evocative painting by the great Italian painter Carlo Quaglia.
It depicts a glimpse of Rome rendered with rare evocative power, creating a rarefied atmosphere of great intensity.
The style of the great post-war Roman School of Mario Mafai is easily recognisable in these brushstrokes, with his life and artistic partner Antonietta Raphaël and Scipione, another great exponent of this Italian avant-garde movement.
This artwork, never before on the market, comes from an important private collection and is beautified by an impressive original frame in gilded wood, in almost perfect condition.

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Carlo Quaglia (Terni, 17 April 1903– Rome, 4 March 1970 was an Italian painter.
He completed his studies in Terni, where he obtained a diploma in accounting and violin at the Bricciardi Music Institute.
He then enrolled at the Academy of Modena, where he graduated in Economics and Commerce.
As an officer in Libya in the 1930s, he was stationed in Benghazi, Sirte and Derna, where he cultivated his passions for the visual arts and classical music.
At the beginning of the Second World War, in 1940, he was taken prisoner by the British and transferred to India to Camp 27 in Yol, in the foothills of the Himalayas.
He spent five years in captivity devoting himself to the study of the arts, practising his first attempts at painting, which led him to decide to become a painter.
On his return to Italy, he resigned from the army and began his career as an artist.
His was a short and successful career that brought him critical and public acclaim.
His paintings sometimes reveal a love of the colours of the Roman School of Scipione, Mario Mafai and Antonietta Raphaël.
Quaglia died in Rome in 1970.
He held solo exhibitions in Rome, Milan, Terni, Turin, Genoa, Livorno, Paris, New Haven (Yale University) and Montreal.
He participated in the Rome Quadriennale from the 5th edition in 1948 to the 9th edition in 1965–1966 and in several editions of the Venice Biennale.
from 1955 to 1957, he taught at the Accademia Roma per Stranieri together with Roberto Melli and was part of the editorial staff of the magazine “Figura” from 1960 to 1961.
In 1963, with text by Giuseppe Ungaretti, the volume La Roma di Quaglia (Quaglia's Rome) was published in Carlo Bestetti's art edition.
One of his works is part of the collection of the National Social Security Institute.

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