Cityscape - Venice, St Marks Square

Beautiful framed oil painting by renowned artist,  ARTIST: Cosimo Privato (Italian, 1899 - 1971).  TITLE: Cityscape - Venice, St Marks Square.  MEDIUM: oil on canvas.  CONDITION: Missing a few microscopic flakes of paint & Minor craquelure. No visible in-paint under UV light.  ART SIZE: 20 x 16 inches / 50 x 40 cm.  FRAME SIZE: 26 x 22 inches / 66 x 55 cm.  SIGNATURE: lower right.  CATEGORY: old antique vintage painting for sale.  BIOGRAPHY: Cosimo Privato was born in 1899 and was largely inspired creatively by the 1900s and 1910s. The first decades of the twentieth century were defined by the dynamic development of visual and pictorial art. These decades were an time of experimentation, with artists delving into ideas surrounding Post-Impressionism, Expressionism and Abstraction. These developments inspired artist communities and collectives across the globe, with many groups developing different methods of communicating their ideas. After the First World War, artists endeavoured