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Paulo Ghiglia (Florence, 5 March 1905 – Rome, 19 November 1979) was an Italian painter. He began painting at a very young age with his father and teacher Oscar; at the age of twenty he left his father's house and moved to La Verna, where he lived for about five years. Read the full biography

Paolo Ghiglia Biography

Paulo Ghiglia (Florence, 5 March 1905 – Rome, 19 November 1979) was an Italian painter. He began painting at a very young age with his father and teacher Oscar; at the age of twenty he left his father's house and moved to La Verna, where he lived for about five years. He made his debut in Milan in 1929 at the Pesaro Gallery together with his father Oscar and his brother Valentino, also a painter. In 1931 he was at the first Quadrennial in Rome: thanks to Petrolini, his close friend, he was introduced to the capital, where the period of portraits began. He stays in Paris where he portrays Joséphine Baker. He returned to Rome, which remained, together with Florence, Livorno and La Verna, the place of greatest inspiration. In the 1940s and 1950s his production concentrated on portraits of illustrious people, monkeys and Isa Miranda. In the sixties he stayed for a long time in California, in Los Angeles and San Francisco, portraying the world of Hollywood cinema; at the end of the decade he moved again to Verna, in Tuscany, there a new impressionist painting led him to large public exhibitions including that of Florence in 1973 at Palazzo Strozzi, in Rome at the Palazzo delle Esposizioni of the Quadriennale, and in 1975 in Assisi with a large exhibition on Saint Francis. His works can be found in various museums around the world, from the Uffizi, with two self-portraits, to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Scala museum in Milan, the Ricci Oddi public collection in Piacenza, the Museum of Modern Art in Livorno, the gallery of modern art of Palazzo Pitti, the Balzan foundation, the Carima Foundation.