Pericle Fazzini

Pericle Fazzini (Grottammare, 1913 - Rome, 1987) was an Italian artist, sculptor and painter, winner of the Feltrinelli Prize for Sculpture in 1968. He trained in the Free School of Nude. The first important commission was in 1931, when he won a competition for the construction of a monument to Cardinal Dusmet. 

In 1938, he opened his studio in Via Margutta where his whole life will remain. He participated in the Rome Quadrennial and the Venice Biennale. His sculptures are kept in important national and international collections including the Hakone open air museum in Japan, the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice, the Tate Gallery in London, the National Gallery of Modern Art in Rome, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Tokyo Momat and the Montreal Museum of Contemporary Art.