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Francesco Giombarresi Italian Painter (Vittoria 1930 – Comiso 2007) was born in Vittoria, a small Sicilian town in the province of Ragusa. He married very young and he moved to Comiso a town nearby his own birth town. He was not enough strength to work in the fields; and then he had a burning passion for study, knowledge, schools of painting, even if he had done only the first two classes in primary school he practiced assiduously writing and reading in solitude and stealthily. He began to paint in 1954 and the skill as well as the great technique of the Sicilian painter have been commented by Pablo Picasso: “The Giombarresian painting, eclectic and of European breath, summarizes in itself the wide spectrum of expressionism characters and constitutes, albeit late, one of the few examples of painting based on the trends and values that inspired, in the first decade of the century, the groups of artists gathered in Germany in the Brucke and the Blaue Reiter and in France in the fauves who, in a controversy with positivist and impressionist naturalism and bourgeois optimism, expressed their uneasy and problematic conception of reality with harsh chromatic dissonances and with the distressing images of a suffering humanity. Despite the rich critical bibliography in his favor, Giombarresi has not yet been properly recognized. His position among the minors in the panorama of Italian painting, in my opinion, does not do it justice, given the strength of the inspiring motives and the technical level of his works.” In short, his story is that of a great misunderstood artist who was forced to work hardly to survive during his life and only after his death, even if already when he was alive Guttuso, Sassu and Cantatore recognized him as a painter, will be fully appreciated and understood.