Valentino Ghiglia (1903-1960) - Pesce e limoni

The artwork has a frame with glass. The overall dimensions are 44 x 65 x 3.

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The eldest son of the painter Oscar Ghiglia was born in Maiano di Fiesole, near Florence, on July 19, 1903.

Though still bearing the father's characteristic stylistic signature, which he treated with a sobriety of drawing in compositions filled with dense and bright color, Valentino Ghiglia loved to engage with the landscape, studied nature, often rose at first light of dawn, wandering through the hills above Florence, and returning with landscape sketches or with still lifes.

In 1929 he exhibited alongside his father and his brother Paulo at the Pesaro Gallery in Milan, and then participated in the Rome, Trieste and Florence Quadriennials.

To this period of successes and encouragements, arriving in the forties, there corresponds a painterly search that, in some respects, remains tied to the father's imprint, similar in its painting style—dense and as if fragmented, like slivers of color. Yet it is evident that the approach to the image is more modern, closer to contemporary realism, in the period that sees the Florence-based group of the New Humanism establishing itself.

After the war, Ghiglia reaffirmed his interest in landscapes: he painted views of Rosano, Casentino, the island of Giglio and Elba, but also of Paris, where the artist mounted two solo exhibitions at the Weil Gallery on Avenue Matignon, in October 1955 and January 1956.

He died in Florence on August 25, 1960.