Remo Squillantini (1920-1996) - Bordello

Remo Squillantini After dedicating himself to illustration work, which saw him engaged with Italian and foreign publishers, from 1970 onwards he devoted himself exclusively to painting, developing a gallery of characters involved in everyday rituals, highlighting their vices, habits, weaknesses, and conformisms. A simple and shy man, he spoke mainly through his increasingly sought-after works. He often revises past works with irony and develops his research through thematic cycles: The Seven Deadly Sins, The Sea, The Cabaret, and Sinopies from the early 1900s.
Squillantini's expressionist irony unfolds vigorously in the depiction of the most characteristic 'types,' often narrated in contexts dear to the Impressionists, Cézanne, or the German Expressionists of the Neue Sachlichkeit.
Paolo Levi quotes a writing on Squillantini by Mino Maccari, who also states that the protagonists of Squillantini's paintings 'are the worthy heirs of the characters of Giuseppe Giusti,' to avoid tracing back to Juvenal; his works are preserved in some Italian public collections.
Remo Squillantini, oil on a 35x40 table, sold.
Without a frame, to ensure safe packaging given its value.