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(Venice, 18 September 1899 – Venice, 28 March 1971) It is undoubtedly from the mid-1920s that his work achieved considerable notoriety at a local and national level. From 1926 to 1938 his paintings appeared at the International Art Exhibition of the City of Venice, where he stood out among the youngest exhibitors; in the same years, he also participated in the exhibitions of Italian art organized abroad by the Biennale itself (an example of which, in 1933, was the exhibition of modern Italian art organized by the National Fascist Fine Arts Union and presented by Antonio Maraini at the Künstlerhaus in Vienna ). Read the full biography

(Venice, 18 September 1899 – Venice, 28 March 1971) It is undoubtedly from the mid-1920s that his work achieved considerable notoriety at a local and national level. From 1926 to 1938 his paintings appeared at the International Art Exhibition of the City of Venice, where he stood out among the youngest exhibitors; in the same years, he also participated in the exhibitions of Italian art organized abroad by the Biennale itself (an example of which, in 1933, was the exhibition of modern Italian art organized by the National Fascist Fine Arts Union and presented by Antonio Maraini at the Künstlerhaus in Vienna ). We can also remember, in the Italian context of the twenties and thirties, the important participations in the III Roman Biennale (1925) and the II Quadrennial of Rome (1935), at the International Exhibitions of Fine Arts in Fiume (1925, 1927), at the organized by the Society for Fine Arts of Milan (1924, 1925) and at the Trade Union Exhibitions of the Tre Venezie. The numerous purchases that took place on the occasion of the exhibitions (by King Vittorio Emanuele III, the City of Bari, the Cassa di Risparmio di Venezia, the Municipality of Venice, the Prefecture of Venice, the Ministry of National Education, the Banca d' Italy) confirm the appreciation received Privato also stands out in the field of monumental decoration: in 1928 he won the competition for the design and execution of cartoons for the mosaic decoration of the reception room of the Royal Palace in Cairo, receiving the praise of King Fu'ad I. Finally, among the journeys that took the artist outside his hometown and therefore offered the opportunity for a renewal of his pictorial subjects, we remember the long journey at sea undertaken with the colleague Domenico Mori in 1935 on the oil tanker Nevona, of the Venice Naval Companies, bound for Constance: the navigation will be the subject of numerous works for both of them (Storm of the Black Sea, Dardanelles Strait, Island of Marmara, Dalmatian Coast), then exhibited at the Bauer gallery in via XXII Marzo.