Gino Severini was an Italian painter and a leading member of the Futurist movement born in Cortona in 1883. To a style that is still formally tied to tradition and to the past of Renaissance painting, Severini opposed the experimentation of new colour techniques. His encounter with C�zanne pushed Severini to start his own unique painting route. It was at that point, that he assumed his style, which combined the poetry gathered from a Parisian environment with a clear futuristic impression. In 1910, together with Boccioni, Carr�, Balla, and Russolo, he signed the Manifesto of the Futurist Painters. His first solo exhibition was set up at the Marlborough Gallery in 1913 and in 1916. Once detached from the futurist group, Severini approached cubist painting and around the Twenties, his painting returned to a sort of neoclassicism codified in the writing, �Du cubism au classicisme� (From Cubism to Classicism) from 1921. During the following years, the artist continued on this formal path of detachment from the avant-garde movements and returned to the order of tradition. He held numerous shows in Europe and abroad and participated in various editions of the Venice Art Biennial. He died in Paris in 1966.