Giovan Francesco Gonzaga, Painting, Oil on Cardboard, Framed for sale at Pamono

Description

Oil on cardboard. Signed and dated at the bottom right. At the back further signature, date and title. It is a self-portrait of the Milanese artist descending from a cadet branch of the noble Gonzaga Mantovani. Giovan Francesco took part still twenty in the Second World War with the Cavalry Savoy participating, with the “ghost” squadron to patrol actions in the Russian steppe. The months passed to very close contact with the horse during the war, lit him a real passion for horses, which became a privileged subject of numerous paintings, sculptures and poems. Self-taught artist, he declared ‘my true teacher is nature’, and to it faithful, after the horses, he devoted himself predominantly to the landscapes and death nature, always depicted “en plein air”. He wrote about him Vittorio Sgarbi: ‘The wisdom of Giovan Francesco Gonzaga is in the drawing, which is strong and decisive ….. the images vibrate with anxiety, in the sign of the fight of man against himself, in the hell of one History that seems to always repeat the same drama. But if the preparatory design is admirable, the color of this artist has a royalty and sensitivity that comes from a musical perception of the cromet, where the palette is expressed in sudden, in variations and in rhythms buttons’. His works are included in several museums, including that of the Cavalry of Pinerolo, the historic Museum of the Guardia di Finanza in Rome, the Tel Aviv Museum, the Art Museum in Los Angeles, in public and private collections in Italy, France, Spain, Luxembourg, Indonesia, China, Japan, Singapore and America. The work is presented in the frame.