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€ 1,800.00
€ 1,300.00
SILVER Seller in Ferrara, Italy
Painting by Renzo Ravazzotti oil on canvas, Neve a Bardonecchia, signed and dated February 1965 Galleria Torino - Arte sul Po. Renzo Ravazzotti was born in Alessandria on 28 February 1923 into a wealthy family. In 1932 he moved to Turin, where he attended the Istituto Magistrale. From an early age he had many interests: sport (particularly skiing), philosophy, reading, but above all painting. He studied with the sculptor Michelangelo Monti and the painter Rava in the 1940s. He illustrated Prof. Di Macco's four volumes of Medical Pathology with drawings of histology from life. In his youth he went through different painting experiences, from Flemish to graffiti to gouache, to refine his present technique: a stylised and spatulate figurative, essential and precise. He lives and works in Turin and is married to a wife who tries to tear him away from his painting to take him on a world tour: he draws inspiration for many of his works from these travel experiences, set on the Norman coasts or in Greek, Spanish or Abruzzese villages, on boats from Romagna or the Atlantic, in the narrow streets of Venice or French farmhouses. Or among the bare trees of his Val di Susa where he escapes when he can. He also has a daughter and two granddaughters: none of the three likes to paint, although, as children, he has involved them in paintings that he never exhibits and has dedicated to them a rich collection of sad clowns, the only figures in his repertoire. Over the years he has participated in selected exhibitions, because he paints little and essentially for himself; several critics have written about him.
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