“Crucifixion,” a wall-sized oil painting created by Renato Guttuso (1911-87), one of Italy’s finest modern painters, is widely recognized as a 20th-century masterpiece today. But a year after the ...

Renato Guttuso stands out as one of the most important Italian painters of the 20th century. His unique style is unmistakeably linked to Cubism and Picasso, met by Guttuso in the 1950s. Picasso will ...

This surprising Sicilian painter and staunch communist showed the joys of real Italian life – by inserting Monroe and Picasso into its streets Socialist realism is not exactly the most fashionable of ...

“No matter what the modernists may think, Italy’s women rice pickers are not ‘rectangular objects with wooden thighs and faces like rotten cantaloupes.'” So ran an editorial in the Italian Communist ...

The Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art is a fantastic gallery that specialises in bringing lesser known artists to a London audience, such as with the spectacular Dottori show last year. Their ...

Renato Guttuso, Italy’s most famous contemporary painter, has left a legacy of deathbed mysteries as controversial as his surrealistic canvases. To unravel them the Justice Ministry has appointed two ...

(ANSA) - Parma, September 3 - An exhibition celebrating the life and work of renowned 20th-centurty Italian artist Renato Guttuso is opening shortly near the central city of Parma. The retrospective, ...

Rome, August 4 - Italian exhibition highlights in the first weekend of August include the notebooks of political theorist Antonio Gramsci alongside the masterpieces of painter Renato Guttuso in Genoa, ...

RENATO GUTTUSO, 75, a distinguished Italian painter also active in politics as a Communist Party member, died Saturday. Guttuso, a Communist senator from 1976-83, developed a cubist style in the 1930s ...

The total value of an artist’s artworks sold at auction over a specific period. This metric reflects the artist’s overall market activity and demand in monetary terms. The middle value of all realized ...

Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter It sounds too obvious to say, so I'll say it: a private collection is different from a public collection. The Barnes Foundation in ...

Italian police have uncovered a complex network of thieves who stole valuable paintings at Rome's main airport, and charged two of the hub's staff with stealing the art works.