Roberto Rosati A pair of pictures - flowers made on beech plywood from 1931.

Roberto Rosati Pair from 1931. Flower paintings executed on birch plywood with very material oil paint, featuring small color droplets according to the attached photographs. In good condition, this pair of still lifes from the 1930s is presented in two contemporary frames with ebonized profiles.

Both plaques are signed and dated by the Roman painter in the lower right corner. 

Roberto Rosati was born in Rome in 1889. 

At just thirteen, student of Duilio Cambellotti, he began working with ceramics. Less than 20 years later, after earning a diploma in ceramics from the Royal Institute of Ceramic Arts in Faenza, in 1912 he founded, thanks to funds from Roman art critic and gallery owner Giuseppe Sprovieri, an art ceramics factory in Treia, “Rosati & Sprovieri,” near Civita Castellana, in the Viterbo region, which until 1914 produced works inspired by futurism. Until his death in 1949, he collaborated with various Italian ceramics production centers.

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