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Massimo Campigli was born in Florence on July 4, 1895. In 1909 he moved with his family to Milan, where he came into contact with the Futurist painters. His aspirations, however, were then primarily literary. After military service during World War I, Campigli moved to Paris in 1919. In Paris he worked for nine years as a journalist for Corriere della Sera, during which time he began to paint. His first one-man show took place in 1923 at the Galleria Bragaglia in Rome. Self-taught as a painter, he was initially drawn to Purism, L¨¦ger, the neoclassicizing works of Picasso and Metaphysical painting. Campigli also admired the preclassical works in the Louvre, but it was only in 1928, when he saw the Etruscan collection at the Villa Giulia in Rome, that he was profoundly affected by ancient art. His love of archaism and of hieratic and abstract form led him to find sources in Cretan, Pompeian and Coptic as well as Etruscan art and to turn to Seurat among the moderns. Campigli¡¯s interest in ancient art may have been encouraged by his affiliation with Sette italiani di Parigi, the group be formed with de Chirico, Severini and others in 1929. This same year his mature, characteristic works were exhibited, to considerable acclaim, in his first solo show in Paris, at the Galerie Jeanne Bucher.
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