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Simbari, Grecia, Italy 's most important #2390267

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Simbari, Grecia, Italy 's most important #2390267
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Simbari<p>Title: Grecia<p>Medium: ORIGINAL Serigraph<p>Signature: Hand Signed and Numbered in ink by the Artist<p>Size: 40.5" x 36" <p>Condition: New <p>Gallery Retail: $1,500.00<p>>Nicola Simbari is considered by many to be Italy 's most important living artist. A painter of semiabstract impressionist works; he is a stunning colorist who favors brilliant tones, richly layered with a palette knife. Like the great impressionists of a century ago, Simbari's paintings are drenched in light and energy, but provide new definition through his intensity of vision and dramatic technique. Born in Calabria , Italy , Simbari was greatly impacted by the natural setting of his Mediterranean world: the wide sea, intense sky, and vivid flowers. As a young child, he moved with his family to Rome where his father worked as an architect to the Vatican . The City's Renaissance masterpieces and the artistic treasures of the Sistine Chapel so moved Simbari that, before his 13th birthday, he decided to study art and enrolled at the Accademia delle Belle Arti. At 22, he opened his first studio in Rome . Influenced by the sights and sounds of his childhood, Simbari's early works featured gypsies, cafe settings, fishing villages, and rustic scenes of the Italian countryside. The youthful artist knew success almost immediately, and within months of a one-man show in London , he was awarded the coveted commission to paint murals for the Italian Pavilion at the 1958 World's Fair in Brussels . He solidified ...
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