Juan Carlos Faggioli (Argentine, 1910 - 1996)
This beautiful still life oil on panel measuring 12" (31 cm) x 7" (18 cm) or in the contemporary gold frame of 15-1/2" (39 cm) x 10-1/4" (26 cm) and is signed and dated lower left, Faggioli (19)53. There is also an inscription verso that looks like an address of some kind, but it is indistinguishable. Juan Carlos Figgioli, influenced by Impressionism, is best known for his small sized figurative landscape and still life paintings making this a quintessential example of the artist's work.
 
Biography:
Juan Carlos Faggioli was an Argentine painter born in Buenos Aires on December 18, 1910. He was a figurative painter dedicated, above all, to landscapes and still life painting. He studied art at the Ernesto de la Càrcova High School of Fine Arts, obtaining the title of Superior Professor of Drawing and Painting in 1938. In 1943 Fagglioli was awarded a scholarship by the National Culture Commission. He taught at the National Schools and appeared in most of the official salons held in Argentina. He participated in the Latin American Art Exhibition at the Latin American House in Paris, France in 1946, the Museum of Fine Arts of Virginia (United States), at the Unesco Exhibition of Modern Art in Paris in 1946 and the First Madrid Art Biennial in 1952. He exhibited individually in Friends of Art, Peuser and Witcomb. . Among his many accomplishments he won first prize in the Rosario Salon (1926), the Jockey Club Award in the National Solon (1941) and the National Prize (1950). His paintings can be found in many public and private collections including the Argentine National Museum of Fine Arts as well as in many government administrative buildings throughout Argentina. He died in Bruenos Aires in 1996.