Luigi Montanarini, Geometries, 1970s, Screen Print

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Image dimensions: 50 x 46 cm. Geometries is a beautiful colored serigraph on cream-colored paper, realized in the 1970's by … more Image dimensions: 50 x 46 cm. Geometries is a beautiful colored serigraph on cream-colored paper, realized in the 1970's by the Italian artist, Luigi Montanarini (1906-1998) and published by La Nuova Foglio, a publishing house of Macerata, Italy, as the dry-stamp points on the lower right corner of the sheet. Hand-signed and numbered in pencil on the lower margin. from a rare edition of La Nuova Foglio with a circulation of 50 prints. This contemporary and Informal artwork, representing synthetic colorful abstract composition, shows how Montanarini frees the color from the geometric rigor in a bidimensional surface. In excellent conditions, except for some color cracks on the right and left margin and in the dark violet area. This defect does not affect the image An Italian Informal artwork with shining colors could give your house a touch of joy and modernity, to keep jealously! Luigi Montanarini (Florence, 1906 - Rome, 1998) His artistic career started a little by chance when, in 1925, during one of his frequent visits to the Uffizi, he met the painter Maurice Denis and in the same year he made his first stay in France. In 1927 he attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence and began the artistic and emotional bond with Felice Carena, his teacher of painting. He immediately showed great passion and love for the classics and for the masters of the nineteenth century, from Courbet to Paul Cézanne and Pierre-Auguste Renoir. After graduating from the academy he makes his second trip to Europe: he visits the Netherlands twice and renews his interest in Rubens, Van Gogh and Rembrandt. Later he visited Zurich and returned to Paris, where he met Gino Severini and attended Alberto Magnelli, Picasso and had fertile intellectual exchanges with Jacques Villon and Alfred Manessier. He adheres to the Roman School (Novecento) together with which he exhibits at the "La Cometa" Gallery in Rome. The following year, at the end of the war, he founded together with Pericle Fazzini, Enrico Prampolini, Joseph Jarema and Virgilio Guzzi, the Art Club based in Via Margutta 54. He met and attended Lionello Venturi, returned to Italy after the exile of Fascist period. The year 1956 marks the beginning of its informal period and in 1965 he became director of the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome and a member of UNESCO, which he held until 1976. This piece is attributed to the mentioned designer/maker. It has no attribution mark and no
official proof of authenticity,
however it is well documented in design history. I take full responsibility for any authenticity



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