Massimo Campigli - Twee vriendinnen -litho 1952- - Sold

Campigli was born in Berlin in 1895 but spent his childhood in Florence. In From 1909 he stayed in Milan where he developed into a writer in avant-garde circles. After World War I, he established himself as a correspondent for a Milanese newspaper in Paris. Here he started painting, initially under the influence of Picasso and Leger he developed a serene style with monumental human figures. The Egyptian Fayum portraits he had seen in the Louvre were of great influence. In 1926 he joins the group Novocento in Milan, who are looking for a modern-classical Italian identity. In Paris he joins the group around the Italian painters Severini and de Chirico.Influenced by Etruscan and early Christian art, Campigli develops a new 'Mediterranean' style in which he arrives at classical simplicity with archaic figures and shapes. Campigli died in 1971 in St. Tropez where he had stayed since the war.