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Piero Guccione was a painter, engraver and illustrator originally from Scicli. After having studied at the Art School of Comiso and at the Art Institute of Catania he moved to Rome where he finished his studies at the Academy of Fine Arts. In the capital he rarely painted and devoted himself to engravings and frequented the neorealist painters of Il Pincio gallery in Piazza del Popolo. In the sixties he joined the group Il Pro e il Contro which proposes a return to figuration in opposition to the trends of the informal and Pop Art. & Nbsp; In the mid-sixties he participated in the Venice Biennale, became Renato Guttuso's assistant and received his own professorship at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome. In 1971 he exhibited a solo show at the Palazzo dei Diamanti in Ferrara, while in 1985 he exhibited at the Metropolitan Museum in New York. In 1995 he was nominated Academician of San Luca and received the Special Prize for Culture of the Presidency of the Council of Ministers in 1999 and in December 2004 he received the Gold Medal of the Presidency of the Italian Republic as a merit of art and culture. Piero Guccione dies on October 6, 2018, at the age of 83. & Nbsp;

Authentication of the La Gradiva gallery in Rome, label of the Galleria "Il Gabbiano" on the back. Signed lower right.