Ulrico Schettini (1932) - Uomo con colombe

Ulrico Schettini- Montefiore ( Castrovillari 1932)

Man with doves

Mixed media on canvas

Dimensions with frame: 80 x 70 cm
Painting: 70 x 60 cm

Signed bottom left

On the back: signature, place (London) and date 1977

Ulrico Schettini, also known by the pseudonym Montefiore, is an Italian artist active in painting, printmaking, stained glass, and the visual arts. He operated mainly between Italy, the United Kingdom and the United States, with a body of work ranging from frottage to sacred art, from matter-based painting to experiments with refracted light.
He moved to Pesaro to study painting and ceramics at the city's School of Art, where he created some interesting ceramic works.
After finishing his studies, and after working at the factory for the production of artistic ceramics "Molaroni", in 1950 he founded with Athos Tombari, Paolo Sgarzini and the Faenza-based Gramaglia, the workshop "Ceramica di Urbino", which remained active until 1953.
Subsequently he moved to Rome and worked briefly at several of the city’s kilns.
As a young student he first moved to Paris, thanks to a government scholarship from France and then to London, where he would reside for many years, focusing on his artistic activity.
There he also participated in the movement soon dubbed "neo-Dada", with work oriented toward reinterpreting certain aspects of Dadaism.
In London, he opened a studio for stained glass and frescoes.
Thanks to the success he opened another studio in New York where he was entrusted with several artistic teaching positions at various American and English universities and colleges.
From 1980, back in Italy, he taught Decorative Arts at the Accademia di Macerata and at Brera in Milan, alternating teaching with stays in Peru for iconographic research on Inca ceramics.
Analyzing his artistic career, in the early 1950s he showed that he had absorbed the Cubist language, enriched with his own plastic values. He then advanced his artistic search toward informal art production, non-figurative but spontaneous, often gestural and material.
In 1958, after moving to London, he continued his research, pairing gestural explorations with plastic forms and large symbols.
In the mid-1960s, the artist opened, as noted above, a studio in New York and devoted himself to a production that returned to a generalized representation with figures in a period defined as neo-figurative, and he assimilated influences from George Segal’s pop sculptures.
In the 1970s, a new figurative production flourished, together with frequent use of the white color (doves, flowers, clothing, etc.).

Spedizione assicurata

Authentic work in good condition, in a fine period gold frame.

The frame shown in the photos is provided at no additional cost so the work can be exhibited as soon as it arrives. It is included as a courtesy and is not considered an integral part of the artwork. Therefore any potential damage to the frame that does not affect the artwork itself will not be valid grounds to open a claim or request order cancellation.