LEPRI Stanislao

Stanislao Lepri (born 1905 in Rome); died in Paris in 1980) is still one of the great unknowns of recent art history. In his lifetime, only a small circle of collectors, critics and art dealers appreciated his work and presented it to the public in monographic exhibitions, catalogues and publications. In the retrospective dedicated to him, Stanislao Lepri appears as one of the most fascinating though mysterious masters of the fantastic visionary painting of the last century. «Lepri seeks the strange and incongruous of life ... He has the gift of revealing the worrying and dangerous in a person of annoid appearance, or the mysterious threat emanating from an object because. Nello Pontente, in: Neue Kunst nach 1945 / publisher Will Grohmann, Köln, 1958. Stanislao Lepri was Leonor FINI's companion.