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Antonio Corpora
Early Life, Family and Training Antonio Corpora was born in Tunis on 15 August 1909 to Sicilian parents. This Mediterranean background provided the initial context for a career that would eventually move toward the center of European abstraction. His formal education began at the Tunis Institute of Fine Arts, where he developed the technical foundation necessary for his later departures from traditional form. During this formative peri
od, he studied under the mentorship of Armand Vergeaud, a relationship that anchored his early development before his move toward the continental avant-garde. The trajectory of his career shifted decisively in 1930 when Corpora moved to Paris. By 1931, he had settled in the city, entering a landscape that was rapidly redefining modernism. It was in this environment that he met Alberto Giacometti and Sergio Signori. These encounters pl…