He brought to the British School a wide range of contacts, editorial organization, motivation and philosophy at a time of wartime hiatus.
He was born at Tsarskoe Selo, of Romanov heritage,[1] and at the time of the Russian Revolution his family fled to Yalta and then Italy.
[2] As his flight through north Africa resulted in his arrival in Spain just in time to join the Trotskyist faction in the first year of the Spanish Civil War,[2] other reasons may have existed.
His key work Arson: An ardent review, Part One of a Surrealist Manifestation in 1942 was partially financed by Ithell Colquhoun,[4] whom he married in 1943 and divorced in 1948.
[1] Renzio worked as a journalist, art and film director, actor and lecturer, continuing his collage and painting until shortly before he died at Margate, Kent, England.