Arturo Cecchi (1886 - 1971) - Autoritratto un amico

Important collectible painting, by Maestro Arturo Cecchi 1886. Unique oil on panel work, wooden frame, coming from a private collection. Measures 30x24 cm. Work in excellent conservation conditions.
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Arturo Checchi (Fucecchio, 29 September 1886 – Perugia, 24 December 1971) was an Italian painter.
At the age of twelve he began studying drawing with a private teacher and in 1902 he attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence for three years under the guidance of Alfonso De Carolis. After completing the Academy he began working as a decorator and continued his drawing studies until the outbreak of the First World War, which forced him to return to Fucecchio.
After his first artistic training, he took a trip to Germany, where he met the Jugend painters and the expressionists.
He taught at the Academies of Perugia (from 1925, and where he married one of his students, Zena Fettucciari) , Brera (from 1939) and Florence (from 1942 to 1961
Adherent to the Tuscan pictorial taste of the time, Checchi was among the first painters to orient himself towards the style of Cézanne, which Vittorio Pica made known in Italy in 1908 with the publication The French Impressionists, «suggested by the admirable capacity for synthesis and the will of the French to create abstract harmonies of masses and tones". However, his palette was also enriched by a colorful incisiveness drawn from Van Gogh and Gauguin. He held several personal exhibitions in Florence; he participated in the Venice Biennale (in 1926, 1928, 1932, 1934, 1936 and 1940) , in the first eight editions of the Rome Quadrennial[5] and in graphic collectives in Florence, New York, Paris, Warsaw, Riga. He was also present at the International Art Exhibition in Barcelona, organized in 1931 by the National Fascist Union. Also known as an etchist and draftsman, he took part in the International Graphics Exhibition of Palazzo Strozzi in 1968-69 and published Images, 33 original lithographs, Fucecchio of the time, 44 youthful etchings and woodcuts, as well as other engravings.
Gold medal at the Graphics International at Palazzo Pitti (1927)
Gold medal from the International Center for Culture and the Arts of Montenero (1970)