Artist: Renato Guttuso (1912 - 1987)
Nationality: Italian
Movement: Expressionism
Media: Painting
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Biography:
Renato Guttuso began his career as a legal professional before turning to painting in 1931. He moved to Rome in 1937 and co-founded the anti-fascist group, Corrente. He also created of series of drawings in 1943 that protested the German occupation of Italy and their violent killings. After the war, Guttuso joined the Fronte Nuovo delle Arti. He continued to paint the social difficulties, including the rise of poverty and the student riots in Paris. His large Expressionist paintings were of utmost artistic quality and dedicated to expressing his opposition to the abundant abusive of power during his lifetime.

Artworks in Museum Collections: (60)
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Renato Guttuso, Sanford H. Roth (United States, 1906 - 1962) , circa 1946-1962, 2 1/4 in. negative
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Renato Guttuso, Sanford H. Roth (United States, 1906 - 1962) , circa 1946-1962, 2 1/4 in. negative
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Renato Guttuso, Sanford H. Roth (United States, 1906 - 1962) , circa 1946-1962, 2 1/4 in. negative
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Renato Guttuso, Sanford H. Roth (United States, 1906 - 1962) , circa 1946-1962, 2 1/4 in. negative
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Renato Guttuso, Sanford H. Roth (United States, 1906 - 1962) , circa 1946-1962, 2 1/4 in. negative
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Renato Guttuso, Sanford H. Roth (United States, 1906 - 1962) , circa 1946-1962, 2 1/4 in. negative
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Renato Guttuso, Sanford H. Roth (United States, 1906 - 1962) , circa 1946-1962, 2 1/4 in. negative
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Renato Guttuso, Sanford H. Roth (United States, 1906 - 1962) , circa 1946-1962, 2 1/4 in. negative
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Renato Guttuso, Sanford H. Roth (United States, 1906 - 1962) , circa 1946-1962, 2 1/4 in. negative
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Renato Guttuso, Sanford H. Roth (United States, 1906 - 1962) , circa 1946-1962, 2 1/4 in. negative
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Renato Guttuso, Sanford H. Roth (United States, 1906 - 1962) , circa 1946-1962, 2 1/4 in. negative
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Renato Guttuso, Sanford H. Roth (United States, 1906 - 1962) , circa 1946-1962, 2 1/4 in. negative
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Renato Guttuso, Sanford H. Roth (United States, 1906 - 1962) , circa 1946-1962, 2 1/4 in. negative
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Renato Guttuso, Sanford H. Roth (United States, 1906 - 1962) , circa 1946-1962, 4 x 5 in. negative
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Renato Guttuso, Sanford H. Roth (United States, 1906 - 1962) , circa 1946-1962, 2 1/4 in. negative
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Renato Guttuso, Sanford H. Roth (United States, 1906 - 1962) , circa 1946-1962, 2 1/4 in. negative
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Renato Guttuso, Sanford H. Roth (United States, 1906 - 1962) , circa 1946-1962, 2 1/4 in. negative
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Renato Guttuso, Sanford H. Roth (United States, 1906 - 1962) , circa 1946-1962, 2 1/4 in. negative
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Renato Guttuso, Sanford H. Roth (United States, 1906 - 1962) , circa 1946-1962, 2 1/4 in. negative
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Renato Guttuso, Sanford H. Roth (United States, 1906 - 1962) , circa 1946-1962, 2 1/4 in. negative
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Renato Guttuso, Sanford H. Roth (United States, 1906 - 1962) , circa 1946-1962, 2 1/4 in. negative
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Renato Guttuso, Sanford H. Roth (United States, 1906 - 1962) , circa 1946-1962, 2 1/4 in. negative
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Renato Guttuso, Sanford H. Roth (United States, 1906 - 1962) , circa 1946-1962, 2 1/4 in. negative
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Renato Guttuso, Sanford H. Roth (United States, 1906 - 1962) , circa 1946-1962, 2 1/4 in. negative
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Renato Guttuso, Sanford H. Roth (United States, 1906 - 1962) , circa 1946-1962, 2 1/4 in. negative
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Renato Guttuso, Sanford H. Roth (United States, 1906 - 1962) , circa 1946-1962, 35mm negative
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Renato Guttuso, Sanford H. Roth (United States, 1906 - 1962) , circa 1946-1962, 35mm negative
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Renato Guttuso, Sanford H. Roth (United States, 1906 - 1962) , circa 1946-1962, 35mm negative
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Renato Guttuso, Sanford H. Roth (United States, 1906 - 1962) , circa 1946-1962, 35mm negative
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Renato Guttuso, Sanford H. Roth (United States, 1906 - 1962) , circa 1946-1962, 35mm negative
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Renato Guttuso, Sanford H. Roth (United States, 1906 - 1962) , circa 1946-1962, 35mm negative
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Renato Guttuso, Sanford H. Roth (United States, 1906 - 1962) , circa 1946-1962, 35mm negative
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Renato Guttuso, Sanford H. Roth (United States, 1906 - 1962) , circa 1946-1962, 35mm negative
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Renato Guttuso, Sanford H. Roth (United States, 1906 - 1962) , circa 1946-1962, 35mm negative
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Renato Guttuso, Sanford H. Roth (United States, 1906 - 1962) , circa 1946-1962, 35mm negative
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Renato Guttuso, Sanford H. Roth (United States, 1906 - 1962) , circa 1946-1962, 35mm negative
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Renato Guttuso, Sanford H. Roth (United States, 1906 - 1962) , circa 1946-1962, 35mm negative
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Renato Guttuso, Sanford H. Roth (United States, 1906 - 1962) , circa 1946-1962, 35mm negative
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Renato Guttuso, Sanford H. Roth (United States, 1906 - 1962) , circa 1946-1962, 35mm negative
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Renato Guttuso, Sanford H. Roth (United States, 1906 - 1962) , circa 1946-1962, 35mm negative
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Renato Guttuso, Sanford H. Roth (United States, 1906 - 1962) , circa 1946-1962, 35mm negative
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Renato Guttuso, Sanford H. Roth (United States, 1906 - 1962) , circa 1946-1962, 35mm negative
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Renato Guttuso, Sanford H. Roth (United States, 1906 - 1962) , circa 1946-1962, 35mm negative
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Renato Guttuso, Sanford H. Roth (United States, 1906 - 1962) , circa 1946-1962, 35mm negative
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Renato Guttuso, Sanford H. Roth (United States, 1906 - 1962) , circa 1946-1962, 35mm negative
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Renato Guttuso, Sanford H. Roth (United States, 1906 - 1962) , circa 1946-1962, 35mm negative
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Renato Guttuso, Sanford H. Roth (United States, 1906 - 1962) , circa 1946-1962, 35mm negative
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Renato Guttuso, Sanford H. Roth (United States, 1906 - 1962) , circa 1946-1962, 35mm negative
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Renato Guttuso, Sanford H. Roth (United States, 1906 - 1962) , circa 1946-1962, 35mm negative
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Renato Guttuso, Sanford H. Roth (United States, 1906 - 1962) , circa 1946-1962, 35mm negative
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Renato Guttuso, Sanford H. Roth (United States, 1906 - 1962) , circa 1946-1962, 35mm negative
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Renato Guttuso, Sanford H. Roth (United States, 1906 - 1962) , circa 1946-1962, 35mm negative
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Renato Guttuso, Sanford H. Roth (United States, 1906 - 1962) , circa 1946-1962, 35mm negative
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Renato Guttuso, Sanford H. Roth (United States, 1906 - 1962) , circa 1946-1962, 35mm negative
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Renato Guttuso, Sanford H. Roth (United States, 1906 - 1962) , circa 1946-1962, Gelatin-silver print
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Renato Guttuso, Sanford H. Roth (United States, 1906 - 1962) , circa 1946-1962, Gelatin-silver print
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Renato Guttuso, Sanford H. Roth (United States, 1906 - 1962) , circa 1946-1962, Gelatin-silver print
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Renato Guttuso, Sanford H. Roth (United States, 1906 - 1962) , circa 1946-1962, Gelatin-silver print
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Renato Guttuso, Sanford H. Roth (United States, 1906 - 1962) , circa 1946-1962, Gelatin-silver print
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Renato Guttuso, Sanford H. Roth (United States, 1906 - 1962) , circa 1946-1962, Gelatin-silver print

Artnews Articles and Exhibition Information: (3)
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Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art: Pasta: Italian Culture on a Plate
This is the first time that such a loan has been made. The selection is a "visually delicious anthology" of trade catalogues, packaging graphics, typography, menu cards, period photographs, pasta-making tools and other ephemera which in their own...
Centro Studi ed Archivio della Comunicazione: Alberto Sughi Retrospective Collection
Alberto Sughi was born in Cesena in 1928. A self-taught painter, by the end of his formative years he had become one of the greatest Italian artists of his generation. He started painting in the early 1950s, choosing realism in the debate between ...
Salone delle Mostre Temporanee - Complesso del Vittoriano: Alberto Sughi: 1946 to Present
“The play by Eugene Ionesco (The Rhinoceros) is obviously a metaphor representing modern society, which transforms men into monsters. Is this a possible clue one could use to interpret the work of Alberto Sughi?... Sughi has probably read Sartre’s...

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