Tempera painting on cardboard Franco Rognoni (1913-1999)

Splendid tempera painting on cardboard of the important Italian Milanese artist Franco Rognoni (Milan 1913-1999) entitled "Red Moon". The authoritative stamp on the reverse side guarantees the authenticity of the historic San Carlo gallery in Milan, which has always been a reference point for the historic European avant-gardes of the second half of the 20th century. Great price negotiable send your purchase proposal. Work for collectors. MEASURES WITH FRAME H 44 L 36 without frame 25 x 17 biographical note: Franco Rognoni was born in Milan on 20 September 1913 from Giuseppe and Giuseppina Carabelli into a family of the petty bourgeoisie. At a very young age he became interested in drawing and painting and, as an adolescent, he attended the technical schools of weaving and then the High School of Applied Art of the Castello Sforzesco. The critic Raffaello Giolli is his first supporter, an important cultural reference that allows Rognoni to open new horizons. Since 1934 he has worked as a draftsman in important magazines and newspapers, while in 1938 he exhibited for the first time. His training is influenced by artists such as Sironi, de Pisis, Modigliani while his passion for books brings him closer to the graphic and pictorial solutions of German Expressionism. Luino, on Lake Maggiore, welcomes him during the war and here he concentrates on his production (which is enriched with engravings and illustrations), thus maintaining an important collaboration with many periodicals and fundamental contacts with publishers and collectors. In the first post-war period he returned to Milan and in 1946 he married Mariuccia Noè, with whom he shared significant cultural interests throughout his life. In the study of Lambrate new drawings and paintings are born that develop the fundamental themes of the artist and express a very personal anti-academic language. Guido Ballo presented it in Milan in 1953, in a solo show that sees new interests in criticism. Four years later Rai offers him a set designer-costume designer and the same activity is carried out for the Piccola Scala and the Fenice of Venice. The public and the critics appreciate the originality of interpretation of theatrical spaces, aspects that converge in the painting through the use of a mixture of decoration, illustration, graphics and scenography. A contamination that is also reflected in the mixture of irony and drama, with a taste that is not risky to define as musical. And also the artist's friendships embrace above all the literary and musical sphere. Riccardo Malipiero, Vittorio Sereni, Piero Chiara, Dante Isella. The Fifties are characterized by the exclusive link with the Galleria dell'Annunciata in Milan and with exhibitions organized throughout Europe. The following decade saw him engaged in numerous exhibitions and in publishing, while four large canvases dedicated to Ulysses were made for the Michelangelo steamer. Between the seventies and eighties his attention shifted to the human figure, seen with critical and skeptical connotations, and the city, increasingly represented as an alienating context. Alongside this connotation a dreamy aspect appears, linked to memory. The lake, another privileged place of its representation and its existence that alternates between Milan and Luino, enhances this pictorial dimension that fixes the protagonists suspended between reality and imagination. The last decade, the Nineties, sees the artist engaged in the representation of vitality. Ample space is therefore dedicated to color, in a pictorial direction that becomes increasingly central European, in the name of Symbolism and Expressionism. The artist passed away in Milan on 11 March 1999