Fausto Melotti

Sculpture project by Fausto Melotti, 1936

1936

Gouaches on paper. On the back there are stickers from Sotheby's Auction with the artist's name and the original title "Three faces eight leaves". These are two similar drawings, with the same subject albeit with small differences, and colored with different techniques. Jean Cocteau was a multifaceted artist: writer, playwright, playwright, he also dabbled in the visual arts, loving to experiment with all the avant-gardes of his century. Jean Cocteau published his first book of drawings in 1923, at just 36 years old. In it the poet portrayed his friends Raymond Radiguet, Pablo Picasso, Erik Satie...

Drawing on paper done in India ink, white lead and gouache; depicting the frescoed vault of the Gallery of the Eagles in the Domus Aurea. The perimeter band is occupied by reserves i...

Watercolor on paper. Artist's monogram in upper left corner. Tranquillo Cremona, after an initial period close to Romantic painting, from 1870 onward moved away from the influences ...

Oil on Canvas. Of large format and octagonal outline, the canvas features a landscape inscribed in a painted frame with friezes, falling into the category of eighteenth-century paint...

Hand signed and numbered. Edition of 50. Good conditions. Fausto Melotti (Rovereto, 1901-Milano, 1986) was an italian sculptor and painter. In his works of art, the link with the ...

Hand signed and numbered. Edition of only 8 prints in Roman numerals. Very good conditions.

Untitled is an original Contemporary artwork realized by the Italian Contemporary artist Fausto Melotti (Rovereto, 1901 – Milan, 1986) in 1977. Original Watercolor on paper. Good conditions. The certificate of authenticity on photo has been released by the Fausto Melotti Archive. Exhibitions: “Fausto Melotti. Lo spazio inquieto”, marzo-maggio 2009, Rovereto Galleria Transarte Reference: “Fausto Melotti. Lo spazio inquieto”, marzo-maggio 2009, Rovereto Galleria Transarte, cat. p. 110. Refined mixed media and watercolor artwork on paper depicting an abstract composition realized by one of the most interesting artist of the XX Century in Italy in the end of the 1970s. His style and his poetics has changed over the years, always following his very personal research, aimed at articulating the space according to rhythms with a musical flavor. His work, and the sculptures in particular will have more and more a mental character and at the same time will undergo a synthesis, in the ways and in the materials: ceramics or plaster, but above all his very light steel sculptures, will be imbued with a surreal and ironic vein; up to the extreme consequences in the works following official recognition, which will only come in 1967, thanks to an exhibition in Milan. Fausto Melotti was born in Rovereto (Trento) in 1901. In 1918 he enrolled in the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics at the University of Pisa. During this period he studied the piano and took up studies of sculpture in Turin under the sculptor Pietro Canonica...

Hand signed and numbered. Edition of 10 pieces in Roman numerals. Good conditions.