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Still life with corn cobs
CODE: Q111
60 x 90 cm (without frame)
Still life – oil on canvas with original gold-highlighted frame – 1950s
Piero Bertacco was born in S. Donà di Piave on November 30, 1924, and dedicated himself to painting from a very young age. He attended the Academy of Fine Arts where Guido Cadorin and Bepi Galletti were his teachers, and his first solo exhibition was set up at the Galleria San Vidal in Venice.
In 1953, for study purposes, he moved to Milan, where, among others, he assiduously frequented and became fervently attached to Mario Sironi and Spartaco Balestrieri; also in 1953 he exhibited in Milan at the Saletta del Disegno.
Having returned to the Veneto in 1957, he worked intensely and sought a new expressive need in sculpture. At the invitation of the Soviet government, he exhibited in Moscow in 1961 at a review of contemporary Italian painting.
In 1962 and 1963, the American Federation of Arts organized numerous exhibitions for him in the main cities of the United States, then in 1964 he participated with 5 works in the international group exhibition in Geneva, in 1967 in Hamburg an exhibition that obtained considerable success, while the City Museum acquired a painting.
Bertacco died on November 25, 1984.
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