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ALIGI SASSU Italian 1912-2000 Oil on Board

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ALIGI SASSU Italian 1912-2000 Oil on Board
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Oil on board. Signed and attr. Aligi Sassu (Italian, 1912-2000) lower right corner. 15.4 x 12.6 inch (39 x 32 cm). In 1973, he designed the scenes and costumes of the Sicilian Vespers for the reopening of the Teatro Regio in Turin. In the same year the Gallery of Modern Art in Vatican City dedicated a room to his work. In 1976 he completed two mosaics for the church of Sant'Andrea in Pescara. In 1982, he presented 58 watercolours he had originally made in 1943 to illustrate Alessandro Manzoni's The Betrothed. In 1986, he completed 113 works inspired by the Divine Comedy, three of which were purchased by the Pushkin Museum in Moscow. In 1993, he completed "Miti del Mediterraneo", a 150 square meters mural for the new building of the European Parliament in Brussels. The following year he presented Manuscriptum, a series of engraves that were included in the itinerant exhibition "The Bridges by Leonardo". In 1995, he exhibited at the Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art in Bergamo and was nominated Cavaliere della Gran Croce by the Italian president. In 1996 he donated 362 works made between 1927 and 1996 to the city of Lugano. They are currently housed at the Aligi Sassu and Helenita Olivares Foundation in the city.
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