Oil painting on canvas depicting a marina

Oil painting on canvas depicting a harbor, view of Camogli from a small marina with boats and a hilly landscape with architecture in the background. The work by Milanese painter Francesco Ros signed F Ros in the lower left corner. In perfect condition, with frame. Presented in a gold-colored wooden frame and coming from a private collection in Milan.

A painter from Milan, born in 1950, Francesco Ros started painting very early, at just twelve years old, before graduating from the Art School of Brera. He mainly focuses on Milanese urban painting and paints with quick, cosmopolitan brushstrokes, a term coined by the artist himself in '78 to indicate a combination of realistic inspiration and sentimental vision.

“Deeply Lombard in understanding painting, in portraits, but even more so in landscapes, Ros is the last exponent of the Chiarist tradition, which he consolidates in his staging, reinterpreting it in an original way... His landscapes, scenes of life, his portraits, are suggested rather than fully rendered, infused with opalescent shades of nuances and brightened colors, resulting from a very particular relationship with the world, with acceptance of its continuous flow and knowledge of how to relate to it without overlays, without fiction and conjecture.”

Excerpt from press information from his personal exhibition in 2005 at Galleria Atelier - via Frisi, 12, Milan.

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