Guttuso, Renato – Foglie

Born on December 26, 1912, in Bagheria, Sicily, Renato Guttuso gave up studying law at Palermo University to pursue a career as an artist. In Milan, where he lived from 1935 until 1937, Guttuso came into contact with the experimental movements of artists such as Renato Birolli and Giacomo Manzù. He developed his own style influenced by the strongly anti-fascist political views of those artists. He co-founded the artistic movement Fronte Nuovo delle Arti in 1947. Surreal elements began to creep into his paintings in the 1960s. Today, his works are held in the collections of the Tate Gallery in London, The Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia, and the Palazzo Ruspoli in Rome, among others.