Ennio Cocchi landscape and still life painted on both sides panel

Dimensions: H40 X L50 X P4. Colour: multicoloured. Materials: wood (material) Style: classical. ENNIO COCCHI, PAINTING ON TWO SIDES, OIL ON PANEL. ONE SIDE DEPICTS A TUSCAN LANDSCAPE, THE OTHER A STILL LIFE. DIMENSIONS: 38 × 28 cm / 50 × 40 cm. ENNIO COCCHI. At a young age, he attended the workshop of the engraver Emilio Mazzoni Zarini and, in 1929, he enrolled at the Istituto Statale d'Arte di Porta Romana where he studied under painter Gianni Vagnetti. He later studied at the Academy of Fine Arts, graduating in 1937. In 1940, the Galleria d'Arte Moderna in Florence acquired two of his works, and in 1951, one of his canvases was sent to New York for the school of the church Nostra Signora del Carmelo. In 1955, he completed a fresco for the municipality of Florence representing the Virgin and Child in the tabernacle of Via del Campuccio. In 1960, after his marriage, he settled in Antella, a hamlet of Bagno a Ripoli (Florence), where he transferred his studio. Maintaining his reserved nature and desire to stay away from market temptations, he continued to exhibit. In 1962, he held a retrospective exhibition at the Academy of Fine Arts (with forty-eight works presented), which received positive critical acclaim. In 1963, this same Academy offered him a teaching position, but Cocchi refused to devote himself entirely to painting. In 1965, he organized several personal exhibitions, and one of his works, titled “Feeding the Hungry, ” exhibited in Viareggio, earned him a gold medal from Pope Paul VI. Although he is best known for his still lifes and oil landscapes, it should also be noted that he dedicated himself to portraiture and employed other techniques throughout his artistic career, from engraving and etching to drypoint, lithography, and pencil and ink drawing. His works are included in numerous private collections, not only in Italy but also in France and Germany, as well as in two Polish national museums (a self-portrait in Warsaw and a...