Ennio Morlotti Artwork valuations, appraisals and auction estimates

(Lecco, 21 September 1910 – Milan, 15 December 1992). In 1917 he entered the Paolo Angelo Ballerini college in Seregno where he remained until 1922. Read the full biography

Ennio Morlotti Biography

(Lecco, 21 September 1910 – Milan, 15 December 1992). In 1917 he entered the Paolo Angelo Ballerini college in Seregno where he remained until 1922. From 1923, to support himself, he combined work and an artistic apprenticeship. At first he worked as an accountant at an oil mill, later he was employed in a paint factory and then in a mechanical factory. In the meantime he studied ancient art in churches and museums and began to take an interest in contemporary art. In 1936, after having obtained his artistic diploma as a private student at the Brera Academy, he left his job and enrolled at the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence under the guidance of Felice Carena. He studied Masaccio, Giotto and Piero Della Francesca but, realizing that his Lombard pictorial roots would be diverted towards Tuscan painting, he soon left Florence. The subjects most visited by the artist were landscapes, still lifes and figure studies.