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This original multiple is hand signed by incision on the central medal.
It is also numbered in felt-tip pen from the edition of 80, verso.
This work was assembled by studio Bini, Milan and co-published by Studio Marconi Editore, Milan and Giuliana Adami, Milan.
Although the total edition is of 80, it is made up of two compositions each of 40.
The portrait looks to the left in 40 pieces and then the remaining compositions look to the right.

Literature: Petit, J, (1975). Baj: Catalogue de l’Oeuvre Graphique et des Multiples. Volume II, 1970-1973. Geneva: Rousseau.
Reference : Petit 40

Condition: Very good condition. Small crack to shell in the lower right corner. The work slightly dusty. The central medal lightly rubbed.

Enrico Baj

Born in Milan, Italy, in 1924, Enrico Baj was an artist of his time. His early career was shaped by the horrors of World War Two and the threat of nuclear war in the 1950s. Often at odds with the military-style of government that Italy was under at the time, his works had a radical political and social edge. Although he came from a wealthy family, he subscribed to anarchism and left Italy in 1944 so he wouldn’t be conscripted to take part in the Second World War. He was an originator of the Arte Nuclearia genre, which used art to criticise the military leadership seemingly taking the world towards a nuclear apocalypse.