Sassone "California" A Collection of Works 1970-1973

Firenze, (Florence): Edizioni il Torchio, 1973. Number 741 of a Limited Edition of 1,000 copies. Hardcover. In exceptionally good condition/In quite good condition. Demy folio, [27.75cm/11inches], full gilt-embossed ochre-coloured cloth with mylar-protectect dust jacket, unpaginated. Illustrated with 36 colour and b-w halftone plates. Please feel free to ask for particulars and/or additional photographs. ... Sassone studied with painter Silvio Loffredo, who had been a pupil of the Austrian artist Oskar Kokoschka. These artists formed Sassone's early influences. In November 1967, after the destructive flood that had devastated Florence, Sassone traveled to the United States where he settled in California. He moved to Laguna Beach, where he exhibited at the annual Festival of the Arts. In the early 1980s Sassone moved his studio to San Francisco, where he encountered homelessness. He spent several years sketching the homeless people he met while observing life on the streets. This work formed the exhibition "Home on the Streets" which opened in 1994, at the Museo ItaloAmericano in San Francisco, and traveled to Los Angeles and Florence, Italy. In 1982 Marco Sassone was Knighted by president of Italy, Sandro Pertini, into the Order to the Merit of the Italian Republic and received a gold medal award from the Italian Academy of Arts, Literature and Science. In 2005, Marco Sassone relocated to Toronto, Canada.