LARGE OIL ON TABLE FERRUCCIO FERRI -1940 - "THE BLIND" PUBLISHED

Very rare work of the painter Ferruccio Ferri ( FAUGLIA 1911 - PISA 1989 ) -Sourced from a private collection- The painting is placed in the Syracuse period dated 1940 title " THE BLIND "Oil on TABLE 80X60 cm FRAME 94X74 Ferruccio Ferri was born in Fauglia, in the province of Pisa, on March 24, 1911, and died in Pisa in 1989 at the age of 78. In childhood, showing a marked aptitude and skill for drawing, he had as his first teachers the post-macchiaioli painters brothers Francesco and Luigi Gioli, who near Fauglia had a villa with an estate. He began, on Luigi Gioli´s advice, his studies in Pisa (from 1922 to 1927) at the School of Arts and Crafts in Via San Frediano, a disciple of painting master Curzio Rossi, whom he remembered fondly for his strict technical teachings including frescoes. He continued them for five years, including the concluding two-year Magistero course, at the Porta Romana Institute of Art in Florence, in the painting section, a pupil of Gianni Vagnetti, a young open-minded and innovative master. In the ´20s and ´30s he participated in Pisa in the many periodic exhibitions at the Palazzo alla Giornata, in the union exhibitions at the Verdi Theater of provincial and national level, in the interregional exhibitions in Florence. During these exhibitions he met and became friends with Lorenzo Viani, an artist of great and complex personality and talent. Ferri, who had a strong esteem and admiration for him, would often go to visit him during the summers in his town, Viareggio, in those years rich in cultural initiatives with personalities such as D´Annunzio, Papini, Marinetti, Oietti, Gentile and many others. At the Pisan exhibitions he exhibited with other artists, whom he himself recalled in his memoir writings, such as, in addition to Viani, Pizzanelli, Viviani, Pizzarello, Carlini, Sementa, Bonfanti, Volpi, Casini, Tamburini, Consortini the sculptor and Griselli.