GIGLIO RAPHAEL DANTE

(American, born 1916)

EUROPA AND THE BULL

Tempera Sgraffito on Card

14 x 21 Inches

 Signed Lower Right and Titled on Reverse

Born in Rome, Dante first studied at the Academy of Rome prior to moving to the United States. He exhibited widely, including at the Philadelphia Academy of Fine Arts (1934-36), The Golden Gate Exposition (1936) and The Santa Barbara Museum of Art (1954). Dante also had one-man exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art, New York (1954) and Art Institute of Chicago (1949) among many others. The artist’s work is held in the permanent collections of numerous national and international museums including the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, The Lawrence Museum, and The Springfield Museum of Art. We are pleased to offer Dante’s elegant and haunting interpretation of this classical myth.

 

Reference:

Who Was Who in American Art, Falk, Vol. 1, p.822; Davenport’s Art Reference Guide, 2007/8 Edition, p.661; Askart.com; Artfact.com;

et al.