Primo Carena, Figurative Scene, Oil Painting, Framed

Description

Oil on cardboard. Signed at lower right. from a private collector in Pavia.The painting proposes a subject repeatedly taken up … more Oil on cardboard. Signed at lower right. from a private collector in Pavia.The painting proposes a subject repeatedly taken up by Primo Carena, either with groups of several figures set in a landscape or with a solitary figure as appears in this painting, which belongs to the production of the 1950s. The man on the beach, in the seated pose leaning with his elbow on a marble capital, and in the drape resting on his legs, recalls the elderly seated figure in a work by De Chirico , the Greeting of the Argonauts, and well implies the reference to metaphysical painting that the painter from Pavia wanted to express in his figure paintings of the 1950s-60s.The work is presented in a frame. This piece is attributed to the mentioned designer/maker. It has no attribution mark and no
official proof of authenticity,
however it is well documented in design history. I take full responsibility for any authenticity



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