Dino Cavallari was Italian by heritage and birth. For reasons of war, incarceration, breakdown of health, expatriation to study at the Academie de Beaux Arts in Paris, and marriage to a French woman, he spent most of his life living with her and their son in the capital and in Burgundy. Dino was an artist, a sculptor early, but due to health issues he turned exclusively to painting and eventually adding to the illustration of books. He knew both through crisis and happiness. He painted essences by observing and imagining attributes. An old woman with a bent back, her shoulders covered by a blue shawl, her long arms pushing a cart of produce, lived on his canvas without existing being a question. His art was drawn from nature both o...