Ponti Art Gallery to offer a remarkable oil painting by 20th century Italian artist Giuseppe Ar
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Among latest acquisitions, Ponti Art Gallery offers a masterpiece by Giuseppe Ar, one of the most important Puglia painters active in Lucera along the first half of the 20th century. Giuseppe Ar was born in Lucera in 1898 from a family of humble origins and in the hours of freedom he started very early to study painting technique, demonstrating clear artistic talent. Simple and taciturn, with a mild character, he transfuses in his first paintings, with delicate and poetic tones, a personality of a provincial artist still looking for himself. After moving to Rome from 1925 to 1928, he expressed his artistic stature with more maturity with the study of drawing and perspective at the studio of Antonio Mancini. The first successes and the first exhibitions are coming: his first Roman solo exhibition is also visited by King Vittorio Emanuele III. In 1931, just two years after the