De Francia, Peter

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Information for Authority record

Name (Latin)
De Francia, Peter
Other forms of name
Francia, Peter de
Date of birth
1921-01-25
Date of death
2012-01-19
Gender
male
MARC
MARC

Other Identifiers

VIAF: 232775511
Wikidata: Q16019356
Library of congress: n 82221712
TAU10: 000069203
Sources of Information
  • Fernand Léger, 1983:CIP t.p. (Peter De Francia) data sh. (b. Jan. 25, 1921)
  • Guardian WWW site, Jan. 24, 2012(Peter De Francia; Peter Laurent de Francia; b. Jan. 25, 1921, Beaulieu, Côte d'Azur; d. Jan. 19, 2012; artist with a brilliant and combative style; became the RCA's professor of painting)
  • Impressionism, [n.d.]

Wikipedia description:

Peter Laurent de Francia (25 January 1921 – 19 January 2012) was an Italian-British artist, who was Professor of Painting at the Royal College of Art (RCA), London, from 1972 to 1986. His paintings and drawing are included in art collections in Britain, and he was the author of two books on Fernand Léger, Leger: The Great Parade (Painters on Painting) (1969) and Fernand Léger (1983), and of several articles on art. Influenced by nineteenth-century socialist painters such as Gustave Courbet and Honoré Daumier, as well as by socially committed artists of his time like Renato Guttuso, Pablo Picasso, Max Beckmann and George Grosz, de Francia used subjects that exposed the contradictions in everyday life to try to inspire change.

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