Afro (Afro Libio Basaldella)

Afro Libio Basaldella (March 4, 1912 – July 24, 1976) was one of the most important Italian painters in the post-World War II period. He began as a member of the Scuola Romana, and then embracing [informal] [abstraction], worked and had great international success together with Alberto Burri and Lucio Fontana. He was generally known by the single name, "Afro".