Man Figure

In excellent conditions: as good as new.

Sheet dimension: 28 x 22.5 cm.

This is an original drawing representing a model and showing a very rapid line and a synthetic touch with all the dignity of an autonomous artwork.

Antonio Vangelli (1917-2003):  Descending from a family of painters, sculptors and architects and son of Emidio Vangelli, Antonio Vangelli was born in Rome in 1917. In the Thirties he joined the artistic environment of the capital where he made his debut with the publication of some drawings in the literary magazines "Lettere Oggi" and "Risorgimento". Take part in the first exhibition organized by the "Free Association of Figurative Arts" in the late thirties. In the years of the second post-war period, his artistic maturity led him to create works inspired by the industrial landscape and in the 1960s he created some decorations on ceramic vases with the casting technique. At the beginning of the seventies he met the painter Antonio Vacca, an artist with whom he made a deep friendship, and together they travel to New York, Los Angeles, Amsterdam and in the Renaissance setting of the Villa San Carlo Borromeo, just outside Milan, they discover a new creative inspiration . At Villa San Carlo Borromeo, in 1999 he held a great solo show entitled La festa della vita, on which Spirali published an art book of the same name. Antonio Vangelli died in Rome in 2004. Posthumous exhibitions are held at the Museum of the Villa San Carlo Borromeo, and his works participate in the group show The portrait. The artistic and cultural roots of Europe (2005), The school of Rome (2006), Women (2006), Beauty, art, writing. Europe, Russia, China, Japan (2007) and The incarnation of color and the writing of light (2007) and in the great collective Tesori dell'Italia (2007), held at the Chongqing Planning Exhibition Gallery, in Chongqing, China. Antonio Vangelli died in Rome in 2004.