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If you want to know the quotations of Afro's works, here is a simple and intuitive guide.
GUIDE TO QUOTATIONS FROM AFRO'S WORKS
Afro has an extensive production that includes paintings on canvas, drawings and watercolours on paper and prints.
Afro's prices are very high, he is an artist with a thriving market both nationally and internationally. Afro has a large audience of collectors and enthusiasts from Italy, Europe and the United States ready to buy his works.
We often deal with Afro's works in our auctions and have sold several of them over the years.
Afro's most sought-after works are paintings executed between 1955 and 1960, and for these types of works, depending on size and exhibition pedigree, collectors are willing to spend up to several hundred thousand euros. In fact, the current record for a painting by Afro is around 750,000 euros.
Medium-sized paintings by Afro with a decent exhibition pedigree can fetch prices between 40,000 and 300,000 euros.
Afro's works on paper, if executed between 1955 and 1960, can be worth between 3,000 and 50,000 euros.
Afro's multiple works, such as etchings and lithographs, range in value from 300 to 1,000 euros.
BIOGRAPHY
He was born in Udine on March 4, 1912, into a family of artists: his father and uncle are painter-decorators; his older brothers, Dino and Mirko, are sculptors. In this fertile environment he took his first steps, and as a child he indulged his natural inclination for painting.
In 1929 he went to Rome on a scholarship and here he met Scipione and Mafai. He then moved to Milan where he frequented Birolli and Morlotti and here he also worked for some time in Arturo Martini's studio. He exhibited in 1933 at Galleria Il Milione.
In 1933 he moved to Rome and exhibited with other painter friends of the Roman School at the II Quadriennale in Rome in 1935.
In 1937 he exhibited at the Comet Gallery directed by Libero de Libero and one of the works exhibited was purchased by GNAM.
In 1938 he exhibited at the Venice Biennale, which was followed by numerous other participations (Biennales of 1942, 1952, 1954...).
Beginning in the 1950s, international exhibitions began in private galleries (Catherine Viviano, New York) and especially in public settings: Documenta Kassel, São Paulo Biennial, New York, San Francisco.
He won the Guggenheim Prize in 1960.
He died in Switzerland, in Zurich, in 1976