The Italian painter Luigi Veronesi died on february 25th 1998 in a Milan hospital following a heart attack.
Born in 1908, he first became a designer and took an interest in photography adopting Man Ray's techniques. After meeting Fernand Léger during a stay in Paris in 1932 he adhered two years later to the Abstraction-Creation group and took part in 1935 in an exhibition regrouping Italian abstract painters in Turin.
Veronesi produced several hand-colored abstract films that won him a prize at the Knokke-le-Zoute Festival in 1949. The artist remained faithful to geometrical abstraction towards the end of his life and showed a constant concern regarding the inclusion of art in every day's life. DEAR PIECE OF CAKE A piece of the wedding cake made for the Duke and Duchess of Windsor fetched US$ 30,000 in a New York auction sale of the royal couple's belongings held by Sotheby's.
The souvenirs, including paintings, furniture, clothes, photos and various items, were housed in the Paris residence of the Duke and Duchess which had been acquired by Mohammed Al Fayed, owner of Harrods in London, and father of Dodi, with whom princess Diana died in a car crash in the French capital last August. Half-way through the series of sales the turnover went beyond $ 10 million well above the global US $ 7 million estimate.
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