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Des Oeufs Pout Ta Fette
(Holiday Eggs)
Mezzotint, 1960
Signed, dated, titled and numbered in pencil
Edition: 50 (33/50)
Image: 8 5/8 x 10 11/16"
Condition: Mint
Mario Avati is a French painter and engraver born May 27, 1921in Monaco and died in Paris 15th on February 26, 20091 , active in Paris.
Biography
After studying at the National School of Decorative Arts in Nice and as a student of Édouard Goerg at the National School of Fine Arts in Paris , Mario Avati practiced all engraving techniques from 1947 . Ten years later, he moved, almost exclusively, towards the mezzotint style 2 , first in black, then, from 1969, in color. In doing so, he contributed to relaunching this graphic technique as a medium of popular expression.
Several of his engravings have been used for the edition of stamps . Thus, in 1980, the postal administration reproduced, on the occasion of Stamp Day , the engraving Letter to Mélie .
Mario Avati was a member of the Society of French Painters-Engravers and the National Committee of French Engraving .
The work
Very classically inspired, Avati's work revolves almost exclusively around still life - fruits, flowers, objects staged... - or animals ( butterflies for example), with a treatment of great geometric rigor, but which does not lack, on occasion, humor, starting in the title.
Very admiring and inspired by the work of Giorgio Morandi , Mario Avati arranged and organized his engravings in a way reminiscent of the composition of Morandi's paintings.
Awards
• 1957: Critics’ Prize, Paris
• 1969: gold medal at the first international graphic art exhibition in Florence
• 1981: Grand Prix des arts of the City of Paris
• 1997: Engraving Prize, Portland Art Museum
• 1997: Nahed Ojjeh Prize of the Academy of Fine Arts
Collections:
Art Institute of Chicago
Nelson-Atkins Art Museum
National gallery of Canada
National Museum of Victoria
National Museum of Visual Arts
Museum of Modern Art, New York
National Gallery of Art, Washington
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Musee de l’Oise
Buffalo AKG Art Museum
Hammer Museum, UCLA
Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC
Amon Carter Museum
Benton Museum of Art
Blanton Museum of Art
Castellani Art Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Phoenix Art Museum
Uffizi, Florennce
Victoria and Albert Museum
Courtesy Wikipedia
- Creator:Mario Avati (1921 - 2009, French)
- Creation Year:1960
- Dimensions:Height: 14.88 in (37.8 cm)Width: 18.75 in (47.63 cm)
- Medium:
- Movement & Style:
- Period:
- Condition:Very good. Soft handling fold bottom left corner 3 1/2 inches from image.
- Gallery Location:Fairlawn, OH
- Reference Number:
Mario Avati
Mario Avati along with fellow artist Marc Chagall attended the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris. He began printmaking in the 1940s and later focused on mezzotint, a technique that would bring Avanti significant international recognition for his discipline. As a fellow at the Tamarind Lithography Workshop in the 1960s, he furthered his exploration of mezzotint, with the interplay of intense blackness with gradations of light that define the mezzotint process.
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