pureartsgroup: Exhibition at The Fine Art Society, Est. 1876, 148 New Bond Street, London, W1S 2JT

Monday 24 January 2011

Exhibition at The Fine Art Society, Est. 1876, 148 New Bond Street, London, W1S 2JT

Alberto Morrocco

Works on Paper

26 January - 19 February 2011

Private View: 6pm - 8pm, Tuesday 25 January

Alberto Morrocco OBE RSA RSW, Newspaper and Two Glasses

The Fine Art Society are delighted to present a selling exhibition of works on paper by Scottish artist Alberto Morrocco (1917-1998.)

Throughout his days at Gray's School of Art, Morrocco was an exacting and meticulous draughtsman. Under James Cowie (1886-1956) and Robert Sivell (1886-1958) he was taught the principles of the Italian Renaissance, in particular the Quattrocentro. It gave his pictures the poise and composure which comes from confidence in well founded technique. Both tutors stalwartly believed in training based on the Renaissance emphasis on the importance of preliminary drawing and the structure of painting. Cowie's and Sivell's resolve to adhere to the manner of the Old Masters stayed with Morocco his whole life. Even in the later, intensely coloured paintings, for which Morocco has become better known, the roots of his training are still evident in the ordered composition of the pictures.

The works on paper which make up this exhibition stretch from his days at college in the 1930s, intimate drawings of his family as they grew up to the colourful Mediterranean beach scenes from the '50s onwards. In addition we will be exhibiting a group of Morrocco's oil paintings.