Carlo Bossone Biography
CARLO BOSSONE (Savona 1904 – Vanzone San Carlo 1991) a solitary artist, who made Rosa one of his favorite subjects, was born in Savona in 1904. When his family moved to Turin, he attended the Albertina Academy, under the guidance of the illustrious masters Cesare Ferro and Giovanni Guarlotti. He later became passionate about impressionist painting and life in the high mountains, where he began his own landscape art of exquisite sensitivity accompanied by the well-known painter Vittorio Cavalleri. Having emigrated to Argentina after the Second World War, he depicted the pampas and the evocative landscapes of Patagonia and the Andes. Having returned to Italy, he settled in Vanzone, at the foot of Monte Rosa, spending his time working with colours, like the poet with words, until his death in 1991. Bossone did not only paint in Piedmont, he went to Liguria, Lombardy, Abruzzo, Tuscany, the Aosta Valley, Trentino, Veneto and some parts of southern Italy, but also abroad, in Great Britain, Spain, Switzerland, Norway and South America. He did not organize many solo exhibitions, but all of them were of considerable importance: from the one in 1928 in Paris, to the one in Chianciano during the war or the exhibitions in Argentina at the end of the 1940s.
