Dino Decca Artwork valuations, appraisals and auction estimates

Dino Decca (Brescia 1935- 1999) His love for painting began at the age of 14, when he attended industrial schools. These were the post-war years, his family was displaced in Flero and as Luciano Morandini wrote in the «Corriere Lombardo» of 15 May 1959, they were the times in which «he went to collect wood in the woods with a piece of toasted bread in his pocket, the inseparable notebook and a pencil stub and he would return in the evening with his bundle of dry branches and two scribbles to show to his friends". Read the full biography

Dino Decca (Brescia 1935- 1999) His love for painting began at the age of 14, when he attended industrial schools. These were the post-war years, his family was displaced in Flero and as Luciano Morandini wrote in the «Corriere Lombardo» of 15 May 1959, they were the times in which «he went to collect wood in the woods with a piece of toasted bread in his pocket, the inseparable notebook and a pencil stub and he would return in the evening with his bundle of dry branches and two scribbles to show to his friends". The Parisian experience was a fundamental stage in his profession for the painter. A career which, as we said, began early with some fundamental masters such as Emilio Pasini, Domenico Lucchetti and the Cremonese Emilio Rizzi, continued with studies at the Paolo Tosci Higher Institute of Art in Parma, and was refined from 1959 with the of teaching at state middle schools and culminated between the 1960s and 1970s with exhibitions, awards, courses for the AAB and the Flero school which the painter opened in 1985 and where his legacy is still carried forward. But his most important artistic cycles were undoubtedly the French ones opened in Paris in the prestigious Bernheim-Jeune Gallery, in the heart of the capital, in Faobourg Saint Honorè in the spring of 1972. Decca was applauded in Paris and his skill aroused the interest of great people who begin to commission portraits of him and to maintain relationships of friendship and mutual respect. We are talking about the Princes of Orleans, the actress Michele Morgan, the famous hairdresser Alexander. Decca was authentic in his figures. Faithful to the lines of a body, the shapes of a landscape, the perspectives. Confident and expert in his line work, not a painter of impulse but of meditation, who knew how to clean, remove, perfect.