ORAZI

ORAZI
Born	1906, 28 February
Died	1979, 19 January
Nationality	French
Education	Higher Education
Movement	nouvelle École de Paris

ORAZI (who used to write his name in capital letters), born in 1906 and died in 1979, was a painter of the French School (École Française), mentioned as a member of the School of Paris (École de Paris or nouvelle École de Paris).
He regularly participated in different artistic groups in Paris, especially in the Salon de Mai (the May Salon), with works that evolved from expressionism to abstraction which was often characterized by materials in relief emerging from the composition (Painting in Relief). He returned to figurative painting in his latest phase.

Throughout his career, from 1934 until his death in 1979, he participated in a long series of exhibitions, including many solo exhibitions, mostly in Paris, but also elsewhere in France, Italy and Europe, America, Japan. There have also been some post mortem solo exhibitions from 1980 to 2006. Subsequently, in 2009, the American photographer and artist Peter Beard reproduced in the Pirelli Calendar of that year four paintings by ORAZI from his artistic phase Painting in Relief.

The name he adopted along his career was ORAZI, deriving from the Roman antiquity and represented in the artistic field - since the 17th century - by a series of artists of the same family tree, originating from the Bologna area in central Italy, but active in France. Among those artists, several had his same first name: Horace or, Orazio.

ORAZI was educated in Classical Studies and Literature. He started learning to play the piano in his youth as well as studying composition, then history of music; from secondary school, he studied painting and painting techniques. Towards the end of the Twenties he was in Venice. He was well integrated in that artistic milieu; Leonardo Dudreville considered him as a pupil, and in 1927 drew a portrait of him.
He had his first solo exhibition in 1934, in Milan, held at the art gallery ‘Pesaro’, and Dudreville wrote the foreword to the exhibition catalogue.
His paintings, dated 1934 and 1935, were exhibited at the ‘Quadriennale d’Arte Nazionale’, in Rome (Jasmine; Young woman resting with her cat), and at the Venice ‘Biennale’ (Wally; Young woman dressed in blue). Other paintings from 1936, 1937, and 1941 were commissioned and purchased by the Milanese art foundations ‘Ospedale Maggiore’ and ‘Trivulzio’.

In 1937 the ‘Galerie de Paris’ organised his solo exhibition in Paris; in 1937 and 1938, he exhibited at the first and second Salon des Jeunes Artistes in Paris.

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