Framed Giovanni Stradone Expressionist Painting, "Notturno Antico", signed 1950s

Midcentury Italian painting by Giovanni Stradone (1911-1981), "Notturno Antico", signed on verso: "Via Salaria, 195?, Roma"

Framed mixed media on canvas, expressionist style, horse in lower right quadrant.

Stradone was a figurative painter who worked in a personal expressionist style. From 1930 he approached the Roman school and took his main inspiration from the city of Rome or the hallucinated visions of war. His work was part of the painting event in the art competition at the 1948 Summer Olympics, where he won a silver medal.

He developed towards a gestural and material expressionism. After the sixties, his works continue to re-elaborate recurrent themes (series of cyclists, harlequins, Roman nocturnes and open up to fantastic and caricatural notations.

Works of the artist are in the collections of the Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna in Rome.