René Paresce

Renato Herbert Paresce (5 January 1886 – 15 October 1937), known professionally as René Paresce, was a Swiss-born Italian painter and journalist. Trained in physics, he worked in scientific research and later wrote as a foreign correspondent and art critic for Italian newspapers including Il Giornale d'Italia and La Stampa. .In Paris, Paresce served as a liaison to the culture of the École de Paris.

During World War I, he moved to London, renting his house in Sèvres to the Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky, a family friend. In London he participated in marine research with the National Physical Laboratory. While there, he met Oskar Kokoschka. After the war, he traveled as a journalist to cover the Versailles conference, working for Il Giornale d'Italia and, later, La Stampa; signing his articles Renato. He soon was writing pieces about art criticism and painting to support his family. He remained in Paris until 1930.

In 1926, Margherita Sarfatti invited Paresce to exhibit in Milan with the painters of the Novecento Italiano. He continued to exhibit in Venice, Zürich, and Paris. In 1931, under the patronage of , he was part of an exhibition of Italian painters at the Salon de l'Escalier in Paris, together with Giorgio de Chirico, Alberto Savinio, Mario Tozzi, Filippo de Pisis, Gino Severini, and Massimo Campigli, among others.

In 1933, Paresce had a personal exhibition hosted at the Galleria del Milione in Milan. In 1934, he took a voyage around the world, with a stop at Fiji, then crossed the United States; a trip he chronicled in a series of articles for La Stampa. In 1935, they were collected in a book titled L’altra America. After a long period when his interest in painting gradually declined, he died in Paris.