Sandro Negri
" Nelle ortensie " - oil on canvas 30+30 x 100 cms.
Sandro Negri was born in the village of Virgilio in Lombardy (Italy) in 1940 and he grew up among several generations of peasants in an ancestral farmhouse observing and absorbing the ages-old agricultural traditions and rituals. So his experiences in Italy's most fertile farm region, the Pianura Padana, provide the themes for his paintings such as the peasant figure draped in a dark "tabarro" in a winter scene, women gathering flowers in springtime and fields of grain in summer. It is impossible not to be fascinated, transported, bewitched by his astonishing paintings called by a French critic "joy found again in lost paradise".