Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
ADJUNCT MODULE C: WORLD ART
Preferred Title:
Portrait of Alberto Moravia
Alternate Title:
Ritratto di Alberto Moravia
Image View:
Overall view with frame
Creator:
Renato Guttuso (Italian painter, 1912-1987)
Location:
repository: Brera Museum (Milan, Lombardy, Italy)
Location Note:
Via Brera 28
GPS:
45.471944 9.188056
Date:
1940 (creation)
Cultural Context:
Italian
Style Period:
Twentieth century
Work Type 1:
painting (visual work)
Classification:
Paintings
Material:
oil paint on canvas
Technique:
oil painting (technique)
Measurements:
65 cm (height) x 55 cm (width)
Subjects:
portrait; authors
Description:
In Milan Guttuso met Renato Birolli, Ernesto Trecanni (b. 1920), Giacomo Manzù and Aligi Sassu (b. 1912), who were among the founder-members of Corrente, an anti-Fascist association of artists with whom he exhibited in 1939. Alberto Moravia (1907-1990) was an anti-Fascist novelist and journalist. Guttuso also joined the banned Italian Communist Party (PCI) in 1940 to which he maintained a lifelong commitment, gaining a seat as a senator in 1976. (Source: Grove Art Online; http://www.oxfordart online.com/)
Collection:
Archivision Adjunct Module C: World Art
Identifier:
7A1-GUTTUSO-RAM-A01
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.

Portrait of Alberto Moravia