Dante Montanari Artwork valuations, appraisals and auction estimates

(Porto Sant'Elpidio, 19 July 1896 – Milan, 16 April 1989). He was born in Porto Sant'Elpidio, in the province of Fermo, on 19 July 1896. Read the full biography

(Porto Sant'Elpidio, 19 July 1896 – Milan, 16 April 1989). He was born in Porto Sant'Elpidio, in the province of Fermo, on 19 July 1896. Having graduated from the Technical Institute of Osimo, where his father was principal, he moved in Milan, initially thinking of attending the Academy of Fine Arts. Having abandoned the project, he moved to Ascoli Piceno, where he learned to paint in the studio of his maternal uncle, Salvatore Ferrante, an art education teacher. From 1956 his style changed substantially: "The modeling, so well constructed in previous years, becomes soft with a sinuous progression, dissolved in a luminous atmosphere made up of delicate passages... we can speak of fluid modeling or a process of transfiguration... it can be hypothesized that the last Montanari was obsessed with the fragility of nature and man..."