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Description: | Piero Sansalvadore's oil painting, a view from actress Hermione Gingold's flat of the southeast corner of Piccadilly, looks down on the Circus towards Shaftsbury Avenue. People celebrating the end of the Second World War throng the street and pavements.
Nicknamed 'The Master of the Little Landscape' by Studio in 1953, Sansalvadore painted small works in palette knife on wood. This example is painted on very thin Canadian pine.
Italian-born Sansalvadore first came to England in 1931. He left his job as an insurance salesman around 1938 to live off his savings as a full-time, London-based artist.
With the outbreak of the Second World War, Sansalvadore joined the B.B.C. foreign department to broadcast anti-Mussolini propaganda to Italy. During the 1950s, he had a studio at 91A Peel Street in Kensington. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ | Publisher: | Museum of London | Rights holder: | Digital image Museum of London | Subjects: | Cityscape London at War Art and Design | Temporal: | 1945 | Source: | Museum of London | Identifier: | http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/rser... | Go to resource |
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