Nino Guiffrida, Arlequin et Pierrette au Carnaval, 1985

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Artist: Nino Guiffrida (Italian, born 1924)
Title: Arlequin et Pierrette au Carnaval
Year: 1985
Medium: Oil on canvas
Canvas size: … Read more Artist: Nino Guiffrida (Italian, born 1924)
Title: Arlequin et Pierrette au Carnaval
Year: 1985
Medium: Oil on canvas
Canvas size: 24 x 19.75 inches
Signature: signed upper right by the artist
Condition: Excellent
Frame; Framed in a wooden beige frame.
Description: Also signed, titled and dated on the reverse

Nino Giuffrida is an Italian painter born in 1924 in Catania, Sicily. At the age of 17, his passion for art and painting made his attend the art high school of Catania. During this period, he painted frantically everything that surrounded him, landscapes, sailors, still life.
In 1946 he did his military service in Rome. In 1949, he settled in Paris and painted the Parisian landscapes, but his real vocation was always the composition. He stayed very often on the terraces of the cafes of Montmartre and Saint-Germain-des-Prés where he created drawing of the customers in the restaurants. In 1961 in Cannes, he had the privilege of receiving a visit from Picasso who told him: " Now we should give to every subject its own sensibility and personality and you manage to do it well, specially in your children characters"
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