CARLO QUAGLIATerni, 1903 - Roma, 1970 Still Life with Oranges, 1966-69 Oil on hardboard, 45 x 60 cm Signed lower right: Quaglia Stamped on the back by Galleria La Barcaccia, RomaeDeclaration of authenticity on the back by his daughter della figlia Valeria Quaglia, 1998Declaration of authenticity on the back by his wife Costanza QuagliaBIOGRAPHY: He completed his studies in Terni where he graduated in accounting and violin at the Bricciardi Musical Institute. He then entered the Modena Academy where he graduated in Economics and Commerce.Commanded as an officer in Libya, in the thirties he was stationed in Benghazi, Sirte and Derna, where he cultivated his passions, the figurative arts and classical music. At the beginning of the Second World War, in 1940, he was taken prisoner by the British and transferred to India at Camp 27 of Yol on the slopes of the Himalayas. He spent the five years of imprisonment dedicating himself to the study of the arts, practicing the first painting tests that will lead him to take the decision to become a painter. Upon returning to Italy he took his leave and began his career as an artist. His was a short and successful career that led him to critical and public success,In his painting we sometimes find the love of the colors of the Roman school that belonged to Scipione, Mario Mafai and Antonietta Raphaël. Quaglia died in Rome in 1970.He held solo exhibitions in Rome, Milan, Terni, Turin, Genoa, Livorno, Paris, New Haven (Yale University) and Montréal. participates in the Rome Quadrennial from the V edition of 1948 to the IX edition of 1965-1966 [1] and in various editions of the Venice Biennale, he taught from 1955 to 1957 at the "Accademia Roma per Stranieri" together with Roberto Melli, he was a member of the editorial staff of the magazine "Figura" 1960-1961. In 1963, with the text by Giuseppe Ungaretti, the volume "La Roma di Quaglia" was published in the art edition of Carlo Bestetti. Very good conditionFrame, without glass, with passepartout