Remo Squillantini (1920-1996) - Bordello

Remo Squillantini. After dedicating himself to illustration, a pursuit that kept him busy with Italian and foreign publishers, from 1970 he devoted himself exclusively to painting, developing a gallery of characters absorbed in the rituals of daily life, and in whom he highlights vices, habits, weaknesses, and conformisms. A simple and reserved man, he spoke above all through his increasingly sought-after works. He often engages in ironic revisitations of works from the past and develops his own research through thematic cycles: The Seven Deadly Sins, The Sea, The Cabaret, Sinopias of the early 1900s.
The expressionist irony of Squillantini unfolds vigorously in the portrayal of the most distinctive “types,” often told in contexts dear to the Impressionists, to Cézanne, or to the German Expressionists of the Neue Sachlichkeit.
Paolo Levi cites 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 go back to Juvenal would be excessive"; his works are preserved in some Italian public collections.
Remo Squillantini, oil on panel, 35x40, sold.
Unframed in order to ensure safe packaging given its value.