Piero Leddi (30 August 1930 – 4 June 2016) was an Italian painter. Born in

San Sebastiano Curone San Sebastiano Curone (Piedmontese: ''San Bastiau Curou'' ) is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Alessandria in the Italian region Piedmont, located about southeast of Turin and about southeast of Alessandria, at the confluence of th ...

Alessandria Alessandria (; pms, Lissandria ) is a city and ''comune'' in Piedmont, Italy, and the capital of the Province of Alessandria. The city is sited on the alluvial plain between the Tanaro and the Bormida rivers, about east of Turin. Alessandria ...

, after moving to

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, Leddi became interested in painting, influenced by the works of

Giuseppe Pellizza da Volpedo Giuseppe Pellizza da Volpedo (28 July 1868 – 14 June 1907) was an Italian divisionist painter. He was born and died in Volpedo, in the Piedmont region of northern Italy. Pellizza was a pupil of Pio Sanquirico. He used a divisionist technique ...

. In 1951 he moved to

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, where he started working as a graphic designer. He held his first solo exhibitions in 1953 and in 1958. Leddi's art mainly focused on the theme of the modern city, consisting of industrial landscapes, urban living interiors, cars and intellectual discussions. Another favorite, parallel theme was the decline of the archaic rural world, often symbolized by Fausto Coppi, the son of two farmers, whose story and tragic end was seen as a symbol of a peasant epic. His art was characterized by delicate colors, and he frequently used pastel colors, often mixed

watercolor Watercolor (American English) or watercolour (British English; see spelling differences), also ''aquarelle'' (; from Italian diminutive of Latin ''aqua'' "water"), is a painting method”Watercolor may be as old as art itself, going back to t ...

and tempera. In his works there was often a jumble of elements, which led to expressionistic results. Starting from the 1960s, he began to include in the compositions geometric themes of post- Cubist mold.Giorgio Di Genova. ''Storia dell'arte italiana del '900''. Generazione Anni Trenta, Bora, 2000. . pp. 148-152. Leddi died on 4 June 2016 in the Niguarda hospital in Milan because of the complications subsequent to the breakage of a

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. He was 85.

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