Pier Gabriele Vangelli Portrait of a Girl circa 1950

Pier Gabriele Vangelli Portrait of a Girl from around 1950, a portrait of a young blonde woman with a necklace, created using mixed media, pencil and chalk on paper in the mid-20th century. The drawing is unframed and is in good condition.

Pier Gabriele Vangelli. (Rome 1899/1989). Born in Trastevere of Romagna to a family of artists, painters, architects, and musicians. His father Emidio was an architect, a friend and collaborator of Piacentini, Sartorio, and Spadini. Pier Gabriele settled in Rome as a sculptor in the mid-1920s, becoming an artistic guide to his brother Antonio, a well-known painter who introduced him to the literary and artistic circles with Ungaretti, Guttuso, Turcato, and Vedova.

Fascinated by classical sculpture, he interprets their renewal. He creates works for important clients, e.g., a pre-war bust of J. Paul Getty. For his works, priced at 42 euros, Vangelli is known as the “Trastevere sculptor.” Significant exhibitions of his work took place in Rome in the '60s, in Paris, and at the Getty Museum in Los Angeles.

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