Franco Assetto (b. 1911 in Turin – d. 1991 in New York City) was an Italian sculptor and painter who lived in the United States for much of his life. His early work anticipated Pop Art.. On the occasion of his exhibition"The Bread Show" at the Galleria della Bussola in Turin (1952), he presented a number of bread loaves cast in bronze, eight years before Jasper Johns thought of casting beer cans. When experiments with informalism reached saturation point he devoted himself to Baroque Autre.