oil on canvas, was 150x130 Signed and dated lower right P. Conti '80 II theme of Sapphic Eros, which Conti addresses in numerous paintings since 1977, is an homage to Baudelaire's Flowers of Evil . In The Friends it achieves an unusual violence and drama. The feline dynamism of the burly nudes, the clinging grip [...]
oil on canvas, 29.8x40.2 cm Signed and dated lower left P. Conti '79 The two sketches for Luigi Pirandello's The Salamander remain emblematically here to indicate the love of theater that Conti has not ceased to cultivate from adolescence to the present, and in this case, also his warm friendship with Pirandello and Bontempelli. The [...]
oil on canvas, 29.8x40.2 cm Signed and dated lower left P. Conti '79