The artists behind the collection.
Five artists spanning post-cubist painting, figurative and abstract modernism, and contemporary European sculpture.
Famous french post-cubist painter. Distinct and elegant modern style. Displayed in museums around the world, among others: Metropolitan Museum NY, Tate Gallery London, Modern Art Museum Paris, Whitney Museum NY, museums in Tokyo, Montreal, São Paulo, Mexico City, Basel, Palm Springs, Buenos Aires and many more.
French figurative and abstract painter. Bauquier was student , friend and assistant to Fernand Leger - the mutual influence is clearly visible in his art; Bauquier opened and long directed the French National Museum of Leger's work in Biot where also his own work was displayed. We have a very rare collection of some of his finest works.
Jesús Curía Perez is a contemporary sculptor and artist from Spain. The natural elegance of non-European cultures have always been a source of inspiration to him. In his work he mainly displays his passion for African & Asian cultures. One main ideal in his oeuvre: he wants people to stand up as one and work and live together.
Pedro Pedrazzini is a Swiss sculptor and painter. He studied in London, and in 1976 became the assistant of Remo Rossi. During 1976 and 1977 he studied at the Accademia di belle Arti in Florence, and from 1977 to 1980 in the Accademia di belle Arti in Brera, Milan. Pedrazzini lives and works in Minusio, Ticino.
de Angelis wanted to be a sculptor since childhood when by age 11 he received the Milanese "Child Artist Award". Today he is a honored citizen in his hometown Ischia with his work being exhibited in galleries in Los Angeles, Milan, Locarno, Munich, Basel, Bolzano, Cologne, Brussels, Parma, the European Parliament Strasbourg/Berlin