Selling set of three small original paintings by American- Italian listed artist Marco Sasone (1942-). Paintings are signed by the artsits and dated 1970.
Each oil painting on canvas measures are:
5 1/2" by 7 1/2" painting
8 1/2" by 10 1/2" with the frame.
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"Biography from net: "Marco Sassone (Born 1942) is active/lives in California, Ontario / Canada. Marco Sassone is known for Abstract, figurative expressionist painting, homeless persons.
Marco Sassone, OMRI (born 1942 in Campi Bisenzio) is an Italian painter. He moved to Florence in 1954, where his interest in painting began. He studied architectural drafting at the Istituto Galileo Galilei, and sold his first works, watercolor sketches, to tourists.Sassone studied with painter Silvio Loffredo, who had been a pupil of the Austrian artist Oskar Kokoschka. These artists formed Sassone's early influences.In November 1967, after the destructive flood that had devastated Florence, Sassone traveled to the United States where he settled in California. He moved to Laguna Beach, where he exhibited at the annual Festival of the Arts.In the early 1980s Sassone moved his studio to San Francisco, where he encountered homelessness. He spent several years sketching the homeless people he met while observing life on the streets. This work formed the exhibition "Home on the Streets" which opened in 1994, at the Museo Italo Americano in San Francisco, and traveled around the world."