Pietro Consagra (1920 - 2005) Composition, 1974, mixed media on fabric, cm. 290 x 220, signed and dated "18/10/74" lower right.

With frame: cm. 298 x 228 x 4

Certificate of Authenticity: signed on photo by the artist.

Pietro Consagra was born in Mazara del Vallo, Sicily. He first traveled to Paris in 1946 after participating in his first group exhibition in Rome at the Galleria del Cortile. In 1947 he was a founding member of the group Forma 1. Forma 1 held the first show of nonfigurative art in postwar Rome, Mostra del Gruppo Forma 1 (Exhibition of the group Form 1), at the Art Club. The artist received a prize at the 1955 São Paulo Biennial and participated frequently in the Venice Biennale, where he was awarded the Einaudi Prize (1956) and Grand Prize for sculpture (1960).