Porzano, Giacomo (Italian, 1925-2006) UNTITLED PORTRAIT OF A SEATED MAN WITH CIGARETTE. Portrait drawing, Ink on paper, 1956. Signed and dated, lower right. 12 7/8 x 9 3/8 inches. Provenance: Collection of David Daniels, Sothebys, 2002. With exhibition labels from Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, MA., Four Arts Society, Palm Beach,FL. on the back of an old frame backing. In excellent condition.Porzano was a painter, draftsman and printmaker. He attended the Academy of Carrara in Bergamo, the Faculty of Architecture in Florence, and also studied in Genoa. He settled in Rome in 1959, and worked there for most of his life. His work was exhibited at the Rome Quadrennial and at the Venice Bienniale. His ink drawings of friends or of people observed on the street are always skilled and frequently, like this one, very insightful in conveying the personality of the subject.David M. Daniels (1927-2002) was an art collector and patron from New York, New York. There is a 1972 recorded interview with him for the Archives of American Art in which he discusses his collecting and support of the arts.
