Oil painting on canvas depicting a marina

Oil painting on canvas depicting a harbor, view of Camogli from a small dock 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 uniform gilded wooden frame and originating from a private collection in Milan.

A painter from Milan, born in 1950, Francesco Ros started painting very early, at the age of twelve, 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 of painting, in portraits, but even more so in landscapes, Ros is the last epigone 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, permeated 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 assumptions.”

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

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