Signed, Midcentury, Italian Oil Painting

Large, signed, oil-on-board, abstract painting by listed, beloved Italian artist and professor of the Accademia di Belle Arti, Silvio Loffredo (1920-2013) who studied under legendary Austrian painter, Oskar Kokoschka. Exhibitions include the Venice Biennale; A permanent installation of 20 paintings at the Museum of History of Science, Florence; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA; Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY; In 2004, he was awarded the Città di Firenze Beato Angelico prize in Palazzo Vecchio. His self-portrait is on display in the Vasari Corridor of the Uffizi Gallery in Florence.