Oil on plywood. Signed at the bottom right. Accompanied by authentic on photos of the daughter. The work is part of the series of Salvatore Fiume's paintings known as the city of statues and islands of statues, in which it is evident both the influence of Italian Renaissance painting, and that of the metaphysical works of Italian masters such as Giorgio De Chirico, Alberto Savinio and Carlo Carrà. City and islands are made up of architectural elements in humanoid forms, which bring together painting, sculpture and architecture in themselves. Salvatore Fiume was a multifaceted artist, painter, sculptor, architect, writer (he published novels, stories, tragedies, comedies and poems) and scenographer (he collaborated with the Teatro alla Scala in Milan, with the Covent Garden in London and the Teatro Massimo of Palermo). After training at the Royal Art Institute of the Book of Urbino, he moved to Milan where he made relationships with important intellectuals of the time, including Quasimodo and Buzzati. He began his activity as an art director in Ivrea, but soon he moved to Canzo to devote himself full time to painting, his true passion, while also trying some experiments in the sculptural and architectural fields. On the occasion of his first exhibition, in 1949 at the Borromini Gallery, he achieved great success with the public and critics. Fiume traveled a lot and exposed all over the world, assimilating the uses, cultures and atmospheres of every place where he stayed and proposing them in his works. In 1993 he went to Polynesia to visit and let himself be influenced by the places where the famous Paul Gauguin lived and created great masterpieces. The works of the maturity of Salvatore Fiume are strongly influenced by Gauguin's art and exotic atmospheres: warm shades, strong chromatic contrasts, simple shapes, fantastic themes and almost metaphysical settings. The protagonists of this creative period are often formful and sensual Mediterranean and Eastern women. Today the works of Salvatore Fiume are kept in important Italian and foreign museums, including the Vatican Museums, the Hermitage of St. Petersburg, the Moma of New York, the Pushkin Museum of Moscow. The work is framed.
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