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Specific

• Author:

  SEVERINI Gino (Cortona 1883-Parigi 1966)

• Title: LE CYCLISTE
• Place: PARIS, Galleria Bergruen
• Data: 1956
• Format: Illustrazione 300x600; Foglio 425X660
• Comparison bibliographic: FRANCESCO MELONI, "Gino Severini. Tutta l'opera grafica", Libreria Prandi, Reggio Emilia, 1982, n.215

Product's description

Original lithograph in 13 colors imprinted on paper BFK Rives, signed in pencil lower right, title and dedication "Très cordial hommage de Paris in December 1957 Gino Severini" manuscripts in the bottom margin. Artist's proof for the circulation of 150 copies. Italian painter who knew how to combine science and art, constructive rigor and inventiveness, reaching the most complete felicity of expression when, between 1910 and 1915, the grafted on those values ??to shape the future construction of cubism. Born April 7, 1883 in Cortona, sixteen came to Rome. Here Giacomo Balla began painting the divisions deepened in Paris since 1906 (Spring in Montmartre, 1909). Contact with Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque, Juan Gris and Guillaume Apollinaire, attended the birth and development of Cubism (which theorized in From Cubism to Classicism, 1921, while his artist friends will relive in his autobiography, All the life of a painter, of 1946). Residing in Paris since 1906, Severini acted as an intermediary between the Futurists in Italy colleagues and friends at this time of the Parisian devoted to Cubism. The theme of the dance greatly inspired his imagination experimental. The research that the artist did was always characterized by elements such as light, color and some special forms of inspiration designed to transmit the Cubist movement. Signatory in 1910 the manifesto of Futurist painting, Umberto Boccioni and Carlo Carra urged to join him in Paris where, in 1912, he organized the first exhibition of the Futurists. Frequent cabaret, Severini represented the nocturnal world of lights and dancing in masterpieces such as The Dance of Pan Pan Mönch (1911), Dynamic Hieroglyph of the Bal Tabarin and Dancer in Blue (1912). Came to a kaleidoscopic vision in which space and time , past and present blend together, especially in a festival of lights and colori.Dal 1924 to 1934, even after a religious crisis, he devoted himself to sacred art, especially in large frescoes and mosaics for churches in Switzerland. After World War II, in rewriting their own abstract decorative key Futurist works, found the vein Severini happier. In 1949-1950, he joined the project Severini Verzocchi important collection on the theme of work, by posting, as well as a self-portrait, the work "Symbols of the work." The specimen is in good condition Presena conservative. See FRANCIS MELONS, "Gino Severini. All the graphic work", Library Prandi, Reggio Emilia, 1982, pp. 78-79, No 31