Sergio de Castro (1922 - 2012) Natura morta, 1962, tempera on paper applied on canvas; signed and dated lower right.

SIZE: cm. 50 x 66 x 2 - SIZE WITH FRAME: cm. 67 x 82 x 5

Provenance:
Bergamo, Italy, Galleria Lorenzelli.

Exhibition:
Castro, Milano, Italy, Galleria Lorenzelli, October 1963.

Publications:
Published in the catalogue of the exhibition (Castro, Milano, Italy, Galleria Lorenzelli, October 1963), n. 37.

Sergio de Castro was born in Argentina, in an aristocratic family of Spanish origins. He discovered poetry by learning to speak and write in Spanish. He was specially touched by the works of César Vallejo. Began his artistic education with Manuel de Falla (1876-1946), studying music and composition. He is also influenced by Joaquin Torres-Garcia (1874-1949), founder of the movement “circles and squares”. His paintings looks still life and landscape, inspiring by external reality, move into abstraction.