Your chance to take home this work by Renato Guttuso.

• Etching aquatint
• Dimensions: 56x76cm
• Year 1982
• Print run: XVII/XXX - Embossed Stamp Edizioni d'arte Lombardi - Franca May Editions for the French Academy - Villa Medici, Rome, text by Jacques Prevert 

Guttuso was an prominent figure in the neorealist movement. His work was informed by many influences, from Nineteenth Century French artists to Picasso's cubism. He was socially engaged, impulsive, passionate and hot-blooded.

Today Guttuso remains one of the Italian Twentieth Century's greatest painters. 

As a child he displayed a gift for painting and he produced his first works at the tender age of 13, mainly of Sicilian landscapes and other (adult) artists. In 1928, at just 17 years old, he took part in his first collective exhibition in Rome, where his works were displayed at the I Quadriennale and he came into contact with the anti-Twentieth century Roman school of painters.

Guttuso was a point of reference for the Italian neorealist movement in the second half of the Twentieth Century. He stood out for his social commitment as much as his paintings inspired by his homeland, Sicily. This land gave the artist an extraordinary vision of everyday life, which he developed through still lifes: interiors with baskets and wine bottles, bulbs of garlic and cacti, coloured draping: everything tells the story of a land full of contradictions but also full of warm colors and emotion.