ARTIST: Dino Francesco Fantini (Italian, 1913-1989)
TITLE: Portrait of Woman
YEAR: 1944
MEDIUM: oil on canvas
CONDITION: One patch. Some paint losses. No visible inpaint. Wear to frame.
ART SIZE: 15 x 13 inches / 38 x 33 cm
FRAME SIZE: 22 x 19 inches / 55 x 48 cm
SIGNATURE: lower right
CATEGORY: old antique vintage painting for auction sale online
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BIOGRAPHY:
Dino Francesco Fantini was born in 1913 and was largely inspired by the 1930s growing up. The period of the 1930s is characterised by the conflict between many political ideologies, including Marxist Socialism, Capitalist Democracy, and the Totalitarianism of both Communism and Fascism. In the Soviet Union, Stalin’s government required urgent funds to implement the rapid industrialisation demanded by the first Five Year Plan. It initiated a secret plan to sell off treasures from the State Hermitage Museum in Leningrad (St. Petersburg), including a preliminary list of two hundred and fifty rare paintings by the Old Masters, a number of which ended up in the collection of Andrew Mellon via the New York based art dealing company, Knoedler.