Oil painting on canvas depicting a marina

An oil painting on canvas depicting a harbour, a view of Camogli from a small marina with boats and a hilly landscape with architecture in the background. The work of Milanese painter Francesco Ros, signed F Ros in the lower left corner. In perfect condition, with a frame. It is presented in an even frame of gilded wood and comes from a private Milanese collection. 

A painter from Milan, born in 1950, Francesco Ros began painting very early, at just twelve years old, before graduating from the Art School of Brera. He mainly dedicates himself to Milanese urban painting and paints with a quick and cosmo-verosimilistic brushstroke, a term coined by the artist himself in '78 to indicate a combination of realistic inspiration and sentimental vision. 

"Deeply Lombard in his understanding of painting, in portraits, but even more so in landscapes, Ros is the last epigone of the Chiarist tradition, which he perpetuates in his staging, reinterpreting it in an original way... His landscapes, scenes of life, his portraits, suggested rather than fully rendered and imbued with iridescent shades of nuances and brightened colours, result from a very particular relationship with the world, from the acceptance of its uninterrupted flow and the knowledge of how to relate to it without superstructures, without fiction and conjecture." 

Criticism taken from a press release from the 2005 personal exhibition at Galleria Atelier - via Frisi, 12, Milan.

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