The Reader - Vintage Offset after Renato Guttuso - 1970s

1970s

Reading the Newspaper (Original title: Leggendo il giornale) is an original drawing, realized around the Seventies by the great Italian artist an...

Allegories: The Sleep of Reason is a vintage offset poster realized by the Italian artist Renato Guttuso (Bagheria, 1911 – Rome, 1987) in 1981. Original Colored Offset on paper. The artwork was realized on the occasion of the exhibition realized in 1981 at Galleria Rondanini in Rome. The offset poster depicts the artwork Allegories: The Sleep of Reason realized by the artist in 1979 Printed on the lower left corner: Allegories: The Sleep of Reason Renato Guttuso (Bagheria, 1911 – Rome, 1987). His father Gioacchino, a land-surveyor and amateur watercolourist, and his mother Giuseppina d’Amico, due to disagreements with their own town depending on their liberal ideas, registered the birth on 2 January 1912 in Palermo. In his birthplace Guttuso discovered painting at a very early age; as he himself wrote: “… among my father’s watercolours, the studio of the painter Domenico Quattrociocchi and the workshop of the cart painter Emilio Murdolo my path was taking shape when I was six, seven, ten years old…”.Guttuso was awarded the Lenin Prize at the time of his exhibition at the Art Academy in Moscow, 1972. The same year a large retrospective toured Eastern Europe calling at Praha, Bucarest, Bratislava and Budapest. Two major paintings belong to this period: La Vucciria (1974), later presented by the artist to the University of Palermo, and Caffe Greco...

Renato Guttuso, Italian (1911 - 1987) - Nude Woman, Year: circa 1970, Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 200, Image Size: 18 x 21 inches, Size: 20 x 28 ...

Jules Perahim (1914-2008) Literature : the Reader, 1974 Original lithograph Signed in pencil by the artist Numbered / 199 On Arches vellum 56 x 38 cm (c. 22 x 15 inches) INFORMATIO...