ITALIAN MID CENTURY SANTE MONACHESI (1910-1991)

Italian Mid Century Modern Sante Monachesi (1910-1991) Still Life Cocktails Oil on Canvas. Black wood frame, professionally restored. Measures 26"x34"x2". Weight 6 pds. PROVENANCE: A Private NYC/Charleston SC Estate. Sante Monachesi (1910-1991), was an Italian painter belonging to the modern movement of the Scuola romana (Roman School) and founder in 1932 of the Movimento Futurista nelle Marche (Futurist Movement of Marche). Monachesi studied at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia (Experimental film centre or Italian National film school) in Rome. In the 1930s he embraced Futurism with spiralist and diagonal shapes both in painting and in sculpture. An important representative of Aeropittura (Aeropainting), in 1936 he exhibited at Biennale di Venezia and in 1937 at the World Expo of Paris.