Vintage 1979 Oil Painting Vittorio Miele Still Life "Nautura Marta" Signed Twice

Signed front lower right corner and on the back as well with the name of the piece and his bio in Italian. Beautiful original frame.

Original owners purchased in 1980.

Vittorio Miele (November 24, 1926, Cassino - November 18, 1999, Cassino) was an Italian painter.

Biography

Vittorio Miele was born in Cassino in 1926 and he lived the tragedy of the Second World War, during the Battle of Monte Cassino where his father and his little sister died. His mother will die later for the injuries.

Vittorio Miele survived and he went to Northern Italy.

In 1958 he participated in the Mantova City National Art Exhibition and in 1966 he had his first one-man exhibition in Frosinone.

In 1969 with the painting "Il Dolore" he was awarded the second prize at the International Painting Exhibition in Piervert, in France and with the painting "Case di Ciociaria" he was awarded the first prize at the Exhibition "Figurative Arts Province" in Rome.

In 1971 the Administration of the Republic of San Marino invited him to hold a one-man exhibition at the Ridotto of the Titano Theatre. In July 1971 thousands of people visit this exhibition.

In 1972 some of his paintings were chosen, together with those of De Chirico, Campigli, Gentilini, Cantore and Greco for a collective exhibition in the "2000" Gallery in Tokyo, the only gallery specialized in the presentation and popularisation of contemporary art in Japan. His international experience enriches after only one year. In June 1973, with "L'ultimo Gradino" and "Passaggio Ciociaro" he is present in the Arts Pavillon in Sarajevo.

In October, the Provincaial Tourist Organization in Frosinone awarded him the gold medal for "having contributed to the revival of Art in Ciociaria". In Autumn 1974 was ready for his first trip to North America. The Canadian press and television present the exhibitions Miele holds in the major Canadian cities. In October he exhibited, with great success, over one hundred paintings in Place Bonaventure in Montreal. In November he held a one-man exhibition in Toronto at the Hilton Hotel and also participated with other important contemporary artists at the Fine Arts Gallery exhibition.

Vittorio Miele works hard during those two months, even outdoors, trying to physically capture the harsh climate in his paintings. Paintings of particular interest remain from that Canadian period, linked to that fathal symbiosis established between the master's "provincial luggage" and the temerarious clash wit immeasurable perfectionism. The Nordic houses become Ciociaria countryside cottages.

In '70s he is invited to Yugoslavia, guest of the State Artist Colony in Počitelj. There he discovered the freshness of the oriental archaic culture. He began to paint outdoors again, the style become less "harsh", the Bosnian mountains become "rounded" and the shadows are softly superimposed. He discovered a luminosity lost in his years of travelling.

After a lot of other expositions in Italy and in the USA, in 1991 he exposed at the European Parliament.

He died in his Cassino on 18 November 1999, after many months of lucid agony.

References

• Gavino Còlomo, Nuovissimo dizionario dei pittori, poeti, scrittori, artisti dei nostri giorni, Edizioni della Nuova Europa, 1975

• Studi meridionali, Anno 5, fasc. 1 (January–March 1972)

• Duccio Trombadori (a cura di), Vittorio Miele: Il poeta del silenzio, Comune di Boville Ernica, 2000

• Vittorio Miele, Fondazione Umberto Mastroianni, 2009

The oil painting is 16" x 19 1/2".....Framed it is 23 3/4" x 25 1/2".

From the Galleria Gagliardi:

Ten years after the death of Vittorio Miele we wanted to celebrate with the Foundation of Frosinone Mastroianni, his great work.

In the Villa Comunale di Frosinone was staged a beautiful show with about 50 works, all masterpieces, oil on canvas of the period '70 /' 80 and at the same time in our gallery  40 drawings in pencil and ink.

The two shows have had a visitation beyond all expectations, a real tribute to a great teacher who even now is able to convey through his works, deep emotions.

Both the press and the internet have published several articles on this important event. 

Vittorio Miele is considered one of the greatest Italian artists of the '900 and worthy of great collections and museums.

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