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Mario Comensoli, (1922-1993), Portrait of a Woman, around 1950

Currency:EUR Category:Collectibles Start Price:1,000.00 EUR Estimated At:1,600.00 - 2,000.00 EUR
Mario Comensoli, (1922-1993), Portrait of a Woman, around 1950
Mario Comensoli is regarded as one of the most important Swiss painters of Realism. His motifs were always related to the current social circumstances, particularly their peripheral figures. They are exemplary and focused on the essentials. The work presented here depicts the portrait of a woman with brown hair. The look in her pale face seems absent.



The sheet is signed lower left ‘Comensoli’. It shows small remains of tape (not showing through) on verso, otherwise overall in very good condition. The paper measures 55.5 x 42.5 cm. The framed dimension are 49.5 x 42 cm.



Mario Comensoli (1922-1993)

Swiss painter Mario Comensoli was born 1922 in Lugano. He was educated autodidactically at first, and subsequently received a scholarship at the Fondazione Torricelli, which enabled him to study at the Kunstgewerbeschule and the ETH Zurich. His first painting was purchased by the Museo Civico in Lugano. In the late 1940s Comensoli spent some time in Paris, where he made acquaintance with Alberto Giacometti, Serge Poliakoff, Miró and André Fougeron. He further held numerous exhibitions, among others at the Helmhaus Zurich, the Museo Civico Lugano, the Kunsthaus Zurich and the Kunstverein St. Gallen as well as the Galleria S. Lucia, Rome and others.
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