After the Second World War, Italy was in motion again. Cities experienced a reborn desire for social life, to recover lost time by reknitting the threads of their own identity.
In Monza, the wartime pause had caused the interruption of the activities of the Musei Civici, recently established at the Villa Reale. In 1951, the Pinacoteca reopened and the need was felt for it to be enriched and brought up to date with the nascent national pictorial currents: thus the ‘City of Monza’ National Painting Prize was launched, whose winning works, selected by a select jury, were acquired by the Municipality for the civic collections.
01: Giuseppe Uncini, Project. Mixed media on paper, 1984
02: Fausto Pirandello, Nude at the mirror. Oil on cardboard, 1953
03: Renato Birolli, The Mystics. Pastel on paper pasted on canvas, 1935
04: Giulio Turcato, Composition. Mixed media on canvas, 1952-53
05: Mario Radice, Composition C.F. coloured mixed media (tempera) on panel, 1935-36