Jean Calogero - Oil on panel 'Girl with a Hat'

Oil painting by the painter Jean Calogero in a spectacular gold frame. It depicts a girl wearing a large hat, a characteristic figure in many of his works.
Calogero was born on August 20, 1922, in Catania, Sicily. He was a self-taught artist. His first exhibitions in 1945, in Sicily and Rome, were highly successful. He arrived in Paris in 1947 and studied at the School of Fine Arts. He is best known for his dreamlike, surrealist, and genre works. He exhibited at the Galerie Hervé in 1951 and the following year went to New York to present his exhibition. In 1953, he was invited to Los Angeles, where he returned two years later and regularly exhibited his works, and to San Francisco. His first exhibition in Japan took place in 1965. The city of Paris awarded him the Grand Silver Medal in 1957.

Calogero held numerous exhibitions in Paris during the 1950s, as well as American exhibitions in New York (Associated American Artists, 1952), Los Angeles (James Vigevano Galleries, 1953), and later in Japan and at important galleries in Italy. He lived and worked for many years in Paris and Italy. He died in 2001.

Material: Oil, wood.

Origin: United States.

Measurements: Frame 62x70cms. Work 33x42cms.

Condition: Good condition.