GUIDO (WEDO) GEORGETTI
(American, 1911-2005)
RECLINING NUDE
Oil on Board
9 x 15 Inches
Signed Upper Left

This noted painter and print-maker was born in Italy and came to the United States at the age of one. Georgetti initially worked as a merchant seaman to support his art studies and traveled all over the world accumulating sketches, many of which he later worked up into paintings. He also studied in France where he was influenced by the work of the Nabis and the Post-Impressionists. Georgetti was an early exponent of California Fauvism and participated in many one-man and group exhibitions at prominent galleries and museums. (Oakland Art Gallery, 1942-44; Society of American Graphic Artists, NYC, 1944; Maxwell Galleries, 1940’s; de Young Museum, 1945; City of Paris, 1970)

Reference

Falk, Who Was Who in American Art, Vol.I, p.1238; Hughes, Artists in California, 1786-1940, Vol.I, p.423; Gordon, Davenport’s Art Reference, 2003/2004 Edition, p. 761 et al.