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Silvio Pucci (Pistoia, 1892 – Florence, 1961) was an Italian painter.
His works, with broad brushstrokes, spread with large fields of color, are mainly Tuscan landscapes and still lifes, to which must be added some portraits of family scenes, where the Tuscan style of rural backgrounds and the calm atmosphere strongly emerge. Present in some regional museums (in Latina for example), his works mainly circulate in the private gallery market.
In the 1920s, having gone to Paris, he was struck by the painting of Cézanne, remaining deeply influenced by it.
In the 1930s and 1940s he was an esteemed, quoted artist, awarded at the Venice Biennale. Compromised with Fascism in the post-war period, he was unable to politically recycle himself and was in a certain sense "purged". Today his work is being re-evaluated and appears to deserve a prominent place among artists in the Italian twentieth century. In 1948 he bought a small house in the small Mugello town of Montepulico, where he spent the summer painting landscapes with a fresh and luminous style. Artist friends of the Compagnia del Paiolo came to visit him, some of whom (e.g. the sculptor Bino Bini) bought houses in the town with the intention of founding a community of artists and art lovers. On the facade of his house you can now see a plaque that commemorates him.
