Orient Butterfly

Orient Butterfly   is an original contemporary artwork realized by Luigi Dragoni in 1969.

Original oil on canvas. Frame included (cm 62 x 71.5).

Hand-signed and dated on the lower left corner: Dragoni 69 .

Excellent conditions.

Fantasy oil on canvas depicting the silhouette of a butterfly on a total abstract and colorful background. The main color is the blue with its different shades and with many strokes of different brilliant colors. The composition represents a butterfly on a background with oriental and very lively strokes of color.

The work was realized by  Luigi Dragoni (Cremona, 1932), an Italian painter and engraver. He trained in Brera under Aldo Carpi, after having attended the Polytechnic for a year, he studied engraving with Benvenuto Disertori. He held his first personal exhibition in 1961 at the Saletta dei Giovani at the Permanente in Milan. In 1965, he exhibited at the Oesterreichisches Kulturzentrum in Wien. Still in 1970, he set up an exhibition in the Austrian capital, at the Oesterreichisches Staatsdruckerei. The last relevant exhibition was organized in 1999 at the Chiesa della Maddalena in Bergamo.