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Tony Agostini French painter

Agostini Tony

Tony (Peter) Agostini is a French artist born in 1916 in Bastia/Corsica and died in 1990 in Antony/France. He was a painter and lithographer. He was a self-taught painter. He was influenced by Eugene Paul in the color, he observes as for the form the strict Cézanne principles, sometimes inflected by the cubism.  He began to paint in 1946, his first pictorial themes being the movements of crowds and nocturnal Paris. Then moving towards landscapes, studio interiors and more essentially towards still life (major theme in his lithographic work). In 1957, Tony Agostini moved to Antony, where he lived until his death. (BT)