Still Life with Flowers is a beautiful original oil painting on canvas, realized in the second half of XX century (until 1970) by the Italian master Carlo Quaglia. Hand-signed on the lower right margin. This is a beautiful still life, a vase with colorful flowers with particular attention to the changing colors of the background. and very fresh brushstrokes. A really joyful and colorful still life for each saloon or every kind of home furniture! In excellent condition, including a golden painted wooden frame, cm 85.6 x 72.7 Carlo Quaglia (Terni, 1903 - Rome, 1970) He completed his studies in Terni where he graduated in accounting and violin at the Bricciardi Music Institute. He then entered the Academy of Modena where he graduated in Economics and Commerce. Commanded, as an officer in Libya, in the 1930s he served in Benghazi, Sirte and Derna, where he cultivated his passions, figurative arts and classical music. At the beginning of World War II, in 1940, he was taken prisoner by the British and transferred to India at Camp 27 of Yol on the slopes of the Himalayas. He spent five years in prison, devoting himself to the study of the arts, practicing his first painting tests which led him to make the decision to become a painter. Upon returning to Italy, he took his leave and began his career as an artist. His was a short and fortunate career that led him to critical and public success. In his painting we find, at times, the love of the colors of the Roman School which belonged to 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 Montréal. participates in the Rome Quadrennial from the fifth edition of 1948 until the IX edition of 1965-1966 and at various editions of the Venice Biennale, he taught from 1955 to 1957 at the ''Accademia Roma per Stranieri'' together with Roberto Melli, he was part of the editorial staff of the magazine ''Figure'' 1960-1961. In 1963, with the text of Giuseppe Ungaretti, ''La Roma di Quaglia'' was published. This artwork is shipped from Italy. Under existing legislation, any artwork in Italy created over 70 years ago by an artist who has died requires a licence for export regardless of the work’s market price. The shipping may require additional handling days to require the licence according to the final destination of the artwork.
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