Oil on canvas "Sicilian landscape" FERRUCCIO FERRI - PRIZE NATIONAL EXHIBITION SIENA 1949

Extremely rare work by the painter Ferruccio Ferri (Fauglia 1911 - Pisa 1989) Oil on canvas, 69 cm X 49 cm Dated and signed 1949 - Labeled "Premio SIENA FERRI FERRUCCIO" on the back. Sicilian landscape, National School of Art of Syracuse. The fresco painter and adopted Syracusan, Ferruccio Ferri, born in 1911 in Fauglia (Pisa), died on May 16, 1989 in Pisa, at the age of 78. During his childhood, his first teachers were the charcoal portraitist Dogali and the post-Macchiaioli painters Francesco and Luigi Gioli. He began his studies at the School of Arts and Crafts in Via San Frediano (Pisa, 1922), a disciple of Master C. Rossi, and completed them five years later at the Art Institute of Porta Romana (Florence), where he attended the teaching course and where, as a student of the famous painter G. Vagnetti, he met, in the "Montparnasse" house in Florence, the artists Mannetti, Pizzanelli, Viani, Tayat, Soffici, Bonfantj, MaruuDe (I3rada, Andreotti, Maccari, Conti, Martini, Griselli, Papini, Rosai, Viviam, Volpi, Pizzarello. Between the two wars, he was very active as a painter; in fact, he was awarded twice at the provincial exhibitions of the Union in Pisa and at the regional exhibitions in Florence. His first portrait dates from 1924, followed by the Self-portrait (1927, 1931), of Sara (1929), by Martina (1934), My Daughter (1839), The Blind Man of Syracuse (1840), real character, work belonging to an anonymous Syracusan collector. First solo exhibition at the Palazzo alla Giornata (Pisa, 1930, 1933), he participated in the Biennale (Venice, 1948) and the Quadriennale (Rome, 1951, 1955, 1959, 1965). Other exhibitions: Teatro Verdi (Pisa, from 1934 to 1939), Interreg. Exhibition (Florence, 1936), National Exhibition (Trieste, 1936), National Exhibition (Naples, 1937), Trajan's Markets (Rome, 1937), Gall. La Fontanina (Syracuse, 1946, 1963), Rural Exhibition (Catania, 1947), National Exhibition (Forte) dei Marmi, 1948), National Exhibition (Cremona, 1949), Exposi.