Large oil on canvas portrait, attributed to the painter Paolo Ghiglia (1905-1979), signed lower left, 1940s / 1950s.
Paulo Ghiglia (Florence, March 5, 1905 - Rome, November 19, 1979) was an Italian painter.
He started painting very young with his father and teacher Oscar; at the age of twenty he left his father's house and moved to La Verna, where he lived for about five years. He made his debut in Milan in 1929 at the Pesaro Gallery with his father Oscar and his brother Valentino, also a painter. In 1931 he was at the first Quadrenniale in Rome: thanks to Petrolini, his close friend, he was introduced to the capital, where the period of portraits began. He stayed in Paris where he portrayed Joséphine Baker.
Back in Rome, which will remain, together with Florence, Livorno and La Verna, the place of greatest inspiration, in the forties and fifties his production focuses on portraits of illustrious people.
His works can be found in various museums around the world, from the Uffizi, with two self-portraits, to the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Period: 1940s/1950s
Measurements: With frame H 80 x W 100 x D 10 / Canvas H 68 x W 87 cm
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