Francesco La Monaca

Funding his study as a laborer and handyman, he encountered the painters Picasso, Matisse, and Modigliani; yet his style would remain more classic and academic.

In 1909, he first exhibited with the Salon des Artistes Français; he would continue exhibiting in this forum, including works such as The Poverty (1911); Victory of David and Napoleon on Horseback (1912); The Heroes of the Sea (1913); The Last Effort (1914); The Pain, Solitude, and Love Disarmed (1920); portraits (1923); a bust (1924); Faunesse enviree (1927); and La baccante (1930).

In 1914, he traveled to London, but his studio failed and he returned to Paris, becoming a sketch artist during the war, drawing under the pseudonym Lemoine.

He exhibited at the Fine Art Gallery a series of 34 bronze and marble statuary busts of prominent men including George Bernard Shaw and the Archbishop of Canterbury.

[2] An exhibit of his works, curated by Antonio Falbo, was held in May through April, 2008 at the Sale Museali della Rocca Sforzesca, Soncino.