Franco Gentilini - WOMAN WITH RED HAT

Lithograph from 1979, Beautiful portrait. One of the most attractive from the series "girls of Rome" by Franco Gentilini.

Franco Gentilini worked as a ceramist in Faenza and collaborated with Giovanni Romagnoli and Giorgio Morandi in Bologna. He participated in numerous editions of the Venice Biennale, starting with the acceptance of his work for the 17th Esposizione Internazionale d'Arte della Città di Venezia in 1930, when he also visited Paris.
He moved to Rome in 1932 and held his first solo exhibition at the Galleria di Roma with works in an archaic style inspired by pre-Renaissance Italian art. He also established himself as a fresco painter. He took part in the 5th Esposizione Internazionale delle Arti Decorative in Milan in 1933 and the 2nd Quadriennale Nazionale d'Arte in Rome in 1935, on which occasion the city's governing body purchased one of his works. In the late 1930s he began to associate with the artists of the Roman School. After the Second World War his work was in great demand among Italian private collectors, not least because of his participation in numerous exhibitions.