Tony Agostini (1916-1990) - Oil On Canvas 54x46cm - Signed And Titled On The Back.

Tony Agostini (1916-1990) - Composition with a bunch of grapes, blue harmony. Oil on canvas signed lower right and titled on the back H x W = 54 x 46cm H x W = 76 x 68cm Bright colors, very decorative, painting very representative of the Agostini style. Biography Tony Agostini is a self-taught painter. Although passionate about Rembrandt and Paul Cézanne1 at a very young age, it was the prospect of an administrative career in Paris that led him to settle in Montmartre where, in 1944, he was linked to Francis Carco, Marcel Aymé, and especially the painter Gen Paul2, whose neighbor he was on Avenue Junot. Tony Agostini was part of the La Chignolle brass band with Gen Paul, Jean d'Esparbès, Frank-Will, Pere Créixams and Marcel Aymé3, and he began painting in 1946, his first pictorial themes being the movements of crowds and Paris by night4. "Perhaps influenced by Gen Paul in the color that was both harsh and gloomy, he observed the strict Cézannian principles in form, sometimes inflected by Cubism." Moving then towards landscapes, studio interiors and more essentially still life (a major theme in his lithographic work), his personal practices of horse riding, cycling and especially rugby nevertheless gave meaning to his sending to the Salon des peintres témoins de leur temps in 1957 of a "vast canvas" entitled Rugby - Le plaquage1. It was in this same year, 1957, that Tony Agostini moved to Antony, first at 3, rue d'Alsace-Lorraine, then at 7, rue des Augustins, where he lived until his death. Public collections: French Embassy in La Paz (Bolivia), Still life with bouquet and fruit bowl, oil on canvas 60x73cm, 1958. Economic, social and environmental council, Paris, My studio, oil on canvas 116x89cm, 1955; Landscape of Brittany, oil on canvas 81x65cm, 1956. Exhibitions: The School of Paris, Charpentier gallery, Paris, from 1955 to 1959. Visconti Gallery from 1949 to 1952 Guigne Gallery from 1977 to 1982. Bibliography: YOUNG PAINTING, by Éric Mercier or the figurative alternative of the 50s. (Reproduced on page 17). Edmond Humeau, Tony Agostini, in the collective work Painters Witnesses of Their Time, Achille Weber/Hachette Editions, 1961 (on page 60, a portrait of Tony Agostini is drawn by Roger Lersy). René Barotte, Tony Agostini, in the collective work Painters Witnesses of Their Time, Achille Weber/Hachette Editions, 1957. Marc Alyn (preface by Henri Gineste), Vision on Tony Agostini, Vision on the Arts Editions, Béziers, 1979. Roger Peyrefitte, Tony Agostini, Play Time Editions, La Varenne, 1987