ARTIST - AT HOME

VIA GIULIA in ROME & VIA SIRI in OVADA

When Giorgio left his family home, which his father had bought in Perugia, he moved around to many different places. He shared flats as a younger man and then in maturity settled for many years in Via Giulia 195, very near Ponte Sisto and close to Piazza Farnese and Campo dei Fiori, which was his shopping centre. The back of the apartment overlooked the garden of Palazzo Spada.

He always rented and never had his own property, having let his father's flat in Perugia, which he eventually sold. Another flat near Via Sistina was left to him by a cousin's extremely wealthy husband but the cousin fraudulently claimed she needed it and, under the influence of certain priests, promptly sold it. Giorgio lost another opportunity to lead a stable life in Rome.

An artist himself and a gallery manager and owner, he had collected large numbers of works by some well-known and many lesser artists, and these filled the walls of his flats. Here are some photographs of him in the Via Giulia apartment in Rome and in Ovada, in Via Siri.

Giorgio in Via Giulia 195 in 1987

Behind him are a series of drawings by Freddie Fuchs

1987 in front of a side table with family photographs. The large red abstract painting on wood was by Giorgio himself

1987

Via Giulia 195, the bedroom with a large wooden 'sculpture' by Bruno Abbatiello.

Via Giulia in the 1990s

Via Giulia 1990s

Via Giulia 1990s. The two drawings by Giorgio with red mounts in the top right hand corner can be seen below in his Ovada apartment. The dark collage by the lamp to the right of the mirror was done by Francesco Rutelli, the Italian politician.

Ovada, Via Siri 12. The two smaller drawings with red mounts and black frames were by Giorgio.