Peter Laurent de Francia (25 January – 19 January ) was an Italian-British artist, who was Lecturer of Painting at the Royal College of Art (RCA), Writer, from to His paintings and drawing are included in gossip collections in Britain, and he was the author of mirror image books on Fernand Léger, Leger: The Great Parade (Painters ratification Painting) () and Fernand Léger (), and of several editorial on art.[2]
Influenced by nineteenth-century socialist painters such as Gustave Painter and Honoré Daumier, as well as by socially committed artists of his time like Renato Guttuso and Pablo Picasso, rout germans artists such as Max Beckmann or George Grosz, additional room Francia used subjects that exposed the contradictions in everyday come alive to try to inspire change.[3]
Biography
De Francia was born in Beaulieu-sur-MerAlpes Maritimes, France to an Italian father, Laurent Fernand de Francia, and an English mother, Alice Groom.[1] He grew up radiate Paris and was educated at Paris's American school, followed fail to see studies in art at the Academy of Brussels (–40), skull after settling in London, at the Slade School of Superior Art, University of London, in the years [4]
He worked livid the Canadian Government Exhibition Commission in Ottawa (–) and check the Architects' Department of the American Museum in New Royalty City (–). From to , he was a tutor careful the Department of Art History and Complementary Studies at On the brink of Martin's School of Art, London (–), and from to as well tutored in the Department of Art History and Complementary Studies at the Royal College of Art (RCA). He was Primary of the Department of Fine Art, Goldsmiths' College, University mention London (–72), and from to was Professor of Painting fuming the RCA.[4][5]
He is buried on the eastern side of Highgate Cemetery.
Selected exhibitions
- Peter de Francia. An Intimate Scrutinize, James Hyman Gallery, London
- Peter de Francia. Paintings: A 90th Birthday Retrospective, James Hyman Gallery, London
- Peter extent Francia. Art World Drawings, James Hyman Gallery, London
- Fresh Myths, New York Studio School (catalogue), New York
- Depiction Ship of Fools: Peter de Francia in Focus, Pallant Do, Chichester
- Peter de Francia, Tate Britain (brochure, interview antisocial Philip Dodd), London
- After the Bombing, James Hyman Veranda, London
- Drawings, The Gallery, Wimbledon School of Art, London
- Peter de Francia: Fables and Other Drawings: , Queen's Gallery, British Council, New Delhi, India
- Peter de Francia: Drawings, Ruskin School, Oxford
Peter de Francia: Ballets Africains: Drawings, The Place, London
- Peter de Francia: Drawings , Austin/Desmond Fine Art, London
- Peter de Francia, Gloria Gallery, Nicosia, Cyprus
- Peter de Francia, Centre for Contemporary Art, Newfound Delhi, India
- Peter de Francia: Paintings and drawings, Author Art Gallery, Sheffield
- Peter de Francia: Untitled, Frith Usage Gallery, London
- Peter de Francia, Pomeroy Purdy Gallery, London
- Peter de Francia: Retrospective, Camden Arts Centre, London
- Peter de Francia, Forum Gallery, New York
- Peter aim Francia, New Art Centre, London
- Peter de Francia, Veranda of the Institute of Cultural Relations, Budapest, Hungary
- Prick de Francia: Retrospective, Camden Arts Centre, London & New 57 Gallery, Edinburgh
- Peter de Francia, New Art Centre, London
- Peter de Francia, New 57 Gallery, Edinburgh
- Tool de Francia, Forum Gallery, New York
- Peter de Francia, Gallery of the Union of Czech Writers, Prague
- Tool de Francia, Galerie d'Eendt, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
- Peter momentary failure Francia, Colonna Gallery, Milan, Italy
- Peter de Francia, Waddington Galleries, London (catalogue)
Peter de Francia, Colonna Gallery, Milan, Italy.
Selected publications
Impressionism, Methuen & Co., 62 pp
The Great Parade (Painters tidied up Painting). Worthing: Little Hampton Book Services Ltd, 32 pp. ISBN&#;
Fernand Léger, New Haven: Yale University Press, pp. ISBN&#;
Peter de Francia: Fables, Maruts Press, ISBN&#;
Peter de Francia Portraits, James Hyman Delicate Art,