Fausto Pirandello, Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art, 39a Canonbury Square, London N1, until 6th September 2015

Composition, 1928
Oil on canvas, 106 x 100 cm
Private collection

While his father the Nobel Prize winning writer Luigi Pirandello is more widely known outside Italy, it does surprise me that his son Fausto Pirandello (1899 – 1975) is not and that this is the first UK exhibition devoted to his work. Some fifty of Fausto Pirandello’s works are included in this show and they clearly explain why he was an important figure in Italian culture from the Thirties into the Fifties.

Gymnasium (Athletes – Athletes in a Gymnasium), c. 1934
Oil on board, 163 x 113 cm
Private collection

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Bathers on the Beach (Large Bathers), c. 1961
Oil on board, 103 x 150 cm
Private collection, Rome