Agenore Fabbri was born in a small town located between the cities of Pistoia, where he was educated, and Firenze, where he came into contact with a bunch of avant,​ guarde intellectuals such as Eugenio Montale (lately Nobel Prize for Literature) and painter Ottone Rosai at the Caffé Giubbe Rosse. Then, in 1935, he transfer to Albisola where he shook just a relationship of close friendship with Aligi Sassu, Arturo Martini and Lucio Fontana and started his career painting pottery of the first post-war period and the sculptures of the early fifties which is the theme of the dog, the animal that fights with the man. In 1948 he moved to Milan and was invited to the Venice Biennale, where he continued to exhibit diligently until the early sixties as he participated in various editions of the Rome Quadrenniale starting in 1952 (1959, 1973). In the meantime he experimented the various materials of Informal Art working with wood, rags, gravel and sand. Starting from the second half of the sixties, he returned to his Expressionist attitudes creating big sculptures of iron and bronze. Since 1982, he discovered the painting that will become prominent in the eighties and the nineties and has won, in the years, worldwide fame. Fabbri was always searching for what is new, not yet decided: thus he varied not only themes, but expressive genres too, and never confines himself to a definite form. His works provoke, question, criticize, destroy the certainties, so reflecting the crisis of the modern society and of its metropolis.