“Sweet reverie” by Pino della Selva

“sweet reverie” by pino della selva. Paris 1980 oil on canvas, baguette frame. Pino della selva, whose real name is giuseppe giuffrida, is a painter, sculptor, designer and engraver, also a poet and art critic. Born june 22, 1904 in catania, settled in paris in 1931, and died january 12, 1987 in marseille. Pino della selva received classical training from a sicilian painter, angelo d'agata. He began to participate in parisian salons in 1932. The portraits that he painted, drew or engraved were essentially those of the poets whose books he illustrated. This courageous young man is a consummate artist and I predict a brilliant future for him, ” wrote georges normandy in the preface to the catalog of the artist's first personal exhibition in 1933. His painted work is primarily oriented towards themes of a social nature ( blind at work in 1925, workers in 1932) comparable to those of the french edouard pignon and andré fougeron, he then positioned himself in the continuity of symbolism and surrealism, “his art goes much further than surrealism to reach metaphysics and mystical, say joël millon and claude robert: his work immerses the viewer in a strange atmosphere, a world of dreams and unreality. Pino della selva's abstract period was in the 1950s.

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