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AFRO BASALDELLA Untitled.
Oil on board. 263x357 mm; 10 1/2x14 1/4 inches. Signed in ink, lower right recto.
Basaldella, who is generally known by the single name "Afro" (1912-1976) was an Italian painter from Udine, a member of the Scuola Romana alongside fellow artists Alberto Burri and Lucio Fontana. In addition to his work in Italy, mostly in Rome (he exhibited for the first time in Rome, at the Galleria del Cometa, in 1937), he also traveled to New York and California during the 1950s, teaching at Mills College in Oakland in 1957. Afro's work was shown in an exhibition called "The New Decade: 22 European Painters and Sculptors," which toured the United States, and was also included at "documenta 1" in Kassel, Germany (1955). In 1978 he was honored with a major retrospective at the Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna in Rome.
