Giancarlo Dughetti (Florence 1931 – Vignola 1986) – The Pitcher
MINIATURE: Signed, dated and titled at the bottom.
Pastel on special material 7x9cm
Wooden Frame: 35x35cm
Giancarlo Dughetti (Florence, March 10, 1931 – Vignola, January 16, 1986)
Older brother of the engraver Roberto Dughetti, he was a student of Pietro Annigoni.
In 1954 he debuted with his first solo exhibition of miniatures in the Lyceum of Florence. In 1962 he married Anna Romagnoli. From those years he began to create miniature and pastel portraits of well-known Italian and foreign personalities. He held exhibitions in New York, London, New Zealand and Australia. In Italy he exhibited in Florence, Milan, Rome, Pisa, Verona, Mestre and Montecatini Terme. Between 1979 and 1980, commissioned by the Camerata dei Poeti of Florence, presided over by Adolfo Oxilia, he carried out studies in the Vatican for a Portrait of Pope Wojtyla made the following year in a miniature on ivory preserved in the Pontifical Collections at the Vatican Palaces.
A youthful Self-Portrait (1954) of his is kept by the Uffizi
