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Francesco Pellin, a fish-importer from Busto Arsizio, near Varese in north Italy, is negotiating with Rome to set up a museum to display his collection of works by Renato Guttuso, the Sicilian painter (1912 – 1987).
Pellin met Guttuso in Ischia in 1973, and was invited to visit the atelier which the painter then had at Velate, near Varese. Out of this encounter grew a close friendship, and Pellin started collecting the painter’s works on a big scale.
There are more than 100 pictures, dating from 1931 – 1986, including such masterpieces as “Gineceo no. 1”, “Lamento per la morte di Picasso” and “Muraglia cinese giallo-grigio”.
The collection was displayed at the Chiostro di Bramante in 2005, where Pellin talked to Walter Veltroni, mayor of Rome, of his desire for a permanent home for his collection of the painter’s works.
The probable seat will be the Villa Aldobrandini, at the bottom of the Via Nazionale, near the painter’s home in the Salita del Grillo, in which he lived the last decades of his life.
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