. . . . . . . "1921-01-25"^^ . . . . . "1921-01-25"^^ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "1113047070"^^ . . . . . . "2012-01-19"^^ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "34396929"^^ . . "Peter de Francia"@en . . . . . "Beaulieu-sur-Mer, Alpes Maritimes, France"@en . "Peter Laurent de Francia"@en . . . . "Peter Laurent de Francia (25 January 1921 \u2013 19 January 2012) was an Italian-British artist, who was Professor of Painting at the Royal College of Art (RCA), London, from 1972 to 1986. His paintings and drawing are included in art collections in Britain, and he was the author of two books on Fernand L\u00E9ger, Leger: The Great Parade (Painters on Painting) (1969) and Fernand L\u00E9ger (1983), and of several articles on art."@en . . "London, UK"@en . "British"@en . . . . . . . . . . "Peter Laurent de Francia (25 January 1921 \u2013 19 January 2012) was an Italian-British artist, who was Professor of Painting at the Royal College of Art (RCA), London, from 1972 to 1986. His paintings and drawing are included in art collections in Britain, and he was the author of two books on Fernand L\u00E9ger, Leger: The Great Parade (Painters on Painting) (1969) and Fernand L\u00E9ger (1983), and of several articles on art. Influenced by nineteenth-century socialist painters such as Gustave Courbet and Honor\u00E9 Daumier, as well as by socially committed artists of his time like Renato Guttuso and Pablo Picasso, de Francia used subjects that exposed the contradictions in everyday life to try to inspire change."@en . . "Peter Laurent de Francia"@en . . . . "7414"^^ . . . . "2012-01-19"^^ . . . . "Painting, drawing"@en .