GIOVANNI STRADONENola, 1911 - Rome, 1981 Marcia Longa, 1962 Oil on canvas, 30 x 40 cm Signed and titled on the back: Stradone, Marcia LongaPhoto-certificate by Cristiano Giulio Sangiuliano, Christies’s Italy, 2005LITERATURE AND EXHIBITED: “I Maestri della Scuola Romana”, curated by A. Statuti, Florence, 2014, p. 51BIOGRAPHY: At a very young age he attended Ferruccio Ferrazzi's studio and at the same time devoted himself to entomology. After a pictorial debut in line with the research carried out by the "tonalists", he looks with particular interest at the expressionism of Mafai and above all of Scipione. Characteristic of the production of these years is the attempt to reduce the image to a simple material movement, so as to assume highly intimate values. His first public appearance in the Prelittoriali exhibition dates back to 1935, then in 1939 he exhibited at the Galleria delle Terme. In the 1940s, with a series of drawings strongly linked to the dramatic situation of the period, his artistic inventiveness reached a salient phase. In 1942 he exhibited with Monti, Gentili, Natili and Mazzacurati at the Rome Gallery; in 1945 at the Galleria dello Zodiaco and in 1947 with Scialoja, Ciarrocchi and Sadun at the Galleria del Secolo. On this occasion Cesare Brandi coined for the first time the definition of the "four painters out of the way", highlighting the creative originality of the group compared to contemporary Italian art, too tied to a neo-cubist lexicon. Subsequently he takes expressionism to its extreme formal consequences until it reaches the threshold of the InformalBIBLIOGRAPHY: G. Dessì, "Giovanni Stradone", Rome 1950;G. de Chirico, "Giovanni Stradone", Rome 1964;V. Rivosecchi, A. Trombadori, "Rome just yesterday", Rome 1986.Credits: Netta Vespignani, Francesca F.R. Morelli, Valerio Rivosecchi Very good conditionsFrame, without glass,