Born in Tunisia in 1894, Giovanni March moved to Leghorn the hometown of his parents in 1908, after the sudden death of his father. Financial hardship forced him to try his hand at various professions including that of being a decorator. In about 1916-17, he was working on the decorations of some villas at Castiglioncello, when he met the Leghorn artists Puccini, Bartolena and Nomellini, and began to teach himself how to paint. From 1917 and 1919 he was at the Front. In 1919, he returned to live in Florence, decided to concentrate full-time on art encouraged in this by his friend Ludovico Tommasi.

In 1921 he held his first personal exhibition in Florence, at the Gonnelli, and this is how he began exhibiting.&n...