Enki Bilal

Enki Bilal - Ulysses and Penelope - Original Lithograph

2012

Enki Bilal - Dream - Original Lithograph Publisher: Amis du Livre Edition: 240 2012 Dimensions: 42 x 30 cm. Unsigned and unnumbered as issued

Enki Bilal - Circe - Original Lithograph Publisher: Amis du Livre Edition: 240 2012 Dimensions: 42 x 30 cm. Unsigned and unnumbered as issued

Enki Bilal (born October 7, 1951, in Belgrade) is a French comic book author and filmmaker of Bosnian and Czech origin. Known for his science fiction works, he explores themes of tim...

Image dimensions: 40x60 cm. The painter and the model is an original colored lithograph on paper realized by the Italian artist Mario Russo (1925-2000) A beautiful original print representing the painter portraying an elegant woman with a big hat (she has something of the Fellinian actress) and remembering the academy lesson of drawing and the Classical Greek examples of beauty, is hand-signed in pencil by the artist on the lower right margin. Realized with a fresh line and transmitting the natural fascination towards the female beauty and world, this lithograph is numbered in pencil on lower left margin, a fine specimen from an edition of 150 prints. In very good condition and demonstrating a good inking, except for a light foxing along the margins, this is a really fine contemporary artwork able to adapt to each kind of furniture! Mario Russo (1925 - 2000) The Neapolitan artist moved to Rome, Trastevere, in 1950: in these years began to exihibit in Italy and abroad. In 1953 he stays in Paris, in 1960 in London with his own exhibition. Another exhibition in Monaco of Bavaria in 1965: three years later, in 1968, held two exhibitions in New York and accepted the invitation to exhibit his works at the Royalton College in 1970 Vermont. In 1970 he is enchanted from Sardinia and then decide to live there four months every year. His master is conquered by the sense of beauty, which is synonymous of female body pervaded sensuality. In 1977, during a stay in Canada, obtains new ideas on the man-machine relationship, always inherent in his paintings. In 1979 he was invited by the Italian Institute of Culture of Toronto to exhibit his works at Sudbury University. In 1981 in Florence, he is impressed by the Riace...