Marco De Gastyne (1889-1982), Landscape At The Fortified City, 1917

Marco de Gastyne (Paris 1889-1982)
Landscape at the Fortified City
Oil on canvas
54 x 65 cm
Signed and dated lower right: MARCO DE GASTYNE 17 Original Canvas

Marco de Gastyne studied painting in his youth and won the prize from Rome in 1911. He stayed at the Villa Medicis from 1911 to 1913. His career as a painter was very brief. He then turned to the Seventh Art and made his first film in 1922. This work in the light and the symbolist atmosphere was realized in 1917, shortly after his return from Italy. This painting could represent an Italian city, visited during his trip a few years earlier.