Francesco Christofanetti "Carnival Cart" Aesthetic Movement Oil on Cardboard 1925

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Charming surreal oil on board painting of Carnival Wagon by Francesco Christofanetti (Italian, 1901-1951), 1925. Signed lower left and on … more Charming surreal oil on board painting of Carnival Wagon by Francesco Christofanetti (Italian, 1901-1951), 1925. Signed lower left and on verso has inventory notion of 1939. Image size: 12"H x 16"W. Presented in rustic art nouveau giltwood frame. Framed size: 14.25"H x 17.25"W.

Francesco Christofanetti was a first-half 20th Century Italian painter who trained in School-of-Paris style and eventually traveled to America in 1940s. He had a one man show at New York's Valentine Gallery and exhibited at New York Museum of Modern Art as part of "Twelve Contemporary Paintings." Art critic Emily Genaurer of "World-Telegram" described Christofanetti's work as "lyric, innocent, extraordinary sensitive studies of the simplest things." He also designed sets for Julliard. less