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Woodcut by Enrico Della Torre — Rarity!! Enrico Della Torre was born in Pizzighettone, in the province of Cremona, on June 26, 1931. Printed by Arti Grafiche Torri on Tintoretto paper.

After graduating from the Brera Artistic High School in Milan, he enrolled in 1951 in Achille Funi's school at the Academy of Fine Arts, and in 1954 in Roberto Melli's Painting School in Rome. Inspired by the writings of Francesco Arcangeli, he began to paint, pursuing a dense, informal painting, also suggested by a view of the native landscape around Abduano, a place he would continue to frequent for a long time, even though he would later decide to settle permanently in Milan. The works from these early years were later presented in a solo show curated by Guido Ballo at the Galleria dell'Ariete in Milan in 1956. In the same year he also exhibited at the Galleria del Circolo di Cultura in Bologna. Dissatisfied with informal naturalism, at the end of 1957 he undertook a trip to Paris to experience firsthand its artistic reality.