1955
Edition Size: *
Sheet Size: 63 x 45 cm
Unsigned
Condition: Excellent
A beautiful original lithographic poster created for an exhibition of Marini’s work at the Galerie Berggruen of Marini’s work at the Galerie Berggruen & Cie, Paris. Marini drew on the tradition of Etruscan and northern European sculpture, reinterpreting classical themes such as the female nude, the portrait bust and the equestrian figure, which he combined with aspects of modernism, in particular exaggerated and elongated forms.
£295.00
Marino Marini was an Italian sculptor. Marini participated in the ‘Twentieth-Century Italian Art’ show at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City in 1944. Curt Valentin began exhibiting Marini’s work at his Buchholz Gallery in New York in 1950, on which occasion the sculptor visited the city and met Jean Arp, Max Beckmann, Alexander Calder, Lyonel Feininger, and Jacques Lipchitz. On his return to Europe, he stopped in London, where the Hanover Gallery had organized a solo show of his work, and there met Henry Moore. In 1951 a Marini exhibition traveled from the Kestner-Gesellschaft Hannover to the Kunstverein in Hamburg and the Haus der Kunst of Munich. He was awarded the Grand Prize for Sculpture at the Venice Biennale in 1952 and the Feltrinelli Prize at the Accademia dei Lincei in Rome in 1954. One of his monumental sculptures was installed in The Hague in 1959.
